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Featured Any idea of what these symbols are & what part of world this sterling cuff comes from?

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by GiveMeOldJewelry, May 18, 2020.

  1. Marta Faria

    Marta Faria New Member

    Plus the flower seems to be inspired in indian art more than Chinese/japanese art so its an asian inspired mix!
     
  2. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

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  3. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I wonder if it's a sort of SCA inspired thing.
     
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  4. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    The third from left when stones are at the top looks like a Greek psi.
     
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  5. Couch Potato Wannabe

    Couch Potato Wannabe Well-Known Member

    I think I agree with Marta Faria on the first and last characters, and the second character, being the upside trident, appears to be a Scandanavian Rune:
    = yew tree
    A literal translation of the individual characters does not tend to give a very accurate all over translation, without knowing what the middle two characters are meant to be for certain, this is the best I can offer.
    目 = Eye (Japanese) or Mesh (Chinese)
    木 = Wood (Japanese and Chinese)
     
    Last edited: May 20, 2020
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  6. reader

    reader Well-Known Member

    Here’s why I usually don’t research lol. I figure I either know something to contribute or I don’t as this one has led me down a total rabbit hole of curiosity as all those symbols had some meaning to someone and assumed the characters were all Asian since I knew a couple of them were.

    Obviously, I’m wrong. Wonder if the upside down psi has anything to do with coding which I know nothing about as my searches brought up a very similar symbol called a pitchfork which is used in a document formulation system called Essential Latex. No clue if it’s related.
     
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