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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4328948, member: 2844"]Totally forgot about this thread after my initial 'like' hit and run.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie86" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with Cheryl, those are not Marsh Arab. Marsh Arabs live in Iraq and Iran, btw, not in Egypt.</p><p>I have a double-sided Greek gold pendant with a similar ship and a dolphin on one side, the Parthenon on the other, and a Greek key border. My mother bought it in Athens. She always wore it with the ship facing, she loved dolphins and thought the Parthenon side too touristy anyway.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are still plenty of Ottoman period mosques in Greece. The tower of the one on your brooch reminds me of the Suleiman mosque on Rhodes, now a museum, but it is a style that is seen with other Greek mosques too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4328948, member: 2844"]Totally forgot about this thread after my initial 'like' hit and run.:sorry: I agree with Cheryl, those are not Marsh Arab. Marsh Arabs live in Iraq and Iran, btw, not in Egypt. I have a double-sided Greek gold pendant with a similar ship and a dolphin on one side, the Parthenon on the other, and a Greek key border. My mother bought it in Athens. She always wore it with the ship facing, she loved dolphins and thought the Parthenon side too touristy anyway.:playful: There are still plenty of Ottoman period mosques in Greece. The tower of the one on your brooch reminds me of the Suleiman mosque on Rhodes, now a museum, but it is a style that is seen with other Greek mosques too.[/QUOTE]
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