Featured Egyptian silver panel Bracelet

Another nice little find this week, an Egyptian silver panel bracelet.
Measures 6 3/4" long and 1 1/8" wide.
Paid 13 Euros/20$ Canadian all In.

She was philty, should of seen the water after the dip and scrubdown.

Has hallmarks on the back ( on 2 panels),was able to decipher that it is from Cairo, is .800 Purity and has the Lotus which has become customary since 1946.

The date is the hardest to make up but the closest arabic symbol seems to steer me in the 1949/1951 range, it is slightly different but the closest of the bunch from the chart i found.

I still seem to think this is later than the date I think it is..
Snug fit on my wife's wrist,not much play.Nice little piece weighing in at 52 Grams.

 

Very pretty ! But dip is death to silver,only use paste or cloths . Tarnex is the devils brew .

 

No dip Johnny...know better than that, i meant lots of dishwashing soap in hot water and working gently with a toothbrush after a couple of hours to release the Grime...no chemicals involved no worries

 

My mistake ! Carry on , Good Man .

 

Whoa. I was getting nervous until Nick clarified what he meant by "dip."

I love this style of bracelet (although I never wear them.)

 

Pharaonic Alphabet Bracelet style.

 

Yeah Hollyblue...the whole darn 5 panels of that thing!!....any Hyeroglyph teachers on this site.. could be a cryptic message on those 5 panels, maybe a secret code LOL

 

It is beautiful, Nick. It is commonly called a Wadjet or Eye of Horus bracelet, after the eye symbol.
The Wadjet or Wedjat was the left eye of the God Horus, which he donated to his father Osiris so the latter could reach the afterlife safely. Quite a gift, he had already lost his other eye.
The hieroglyphs are probably random.

These were already made at the date you mentioned, so you could have the right date.

 

Thank you Any for the little Egyptian Mythology lesson . Yes for sure the Hyerogliphs are random...I was just being silly in my last message.
Thanks for chiming in for the date, so you say these were produced at that time already then the hallmark makes more sense, i was under the impression that this style only started in the 1960's.

 

I have seen similar bracelets from the 1930s, and I wouldn't be surprised if they started making these pretty soon after the tomb of King Tut was discovered.

 

Think about being the one discovering that back in 1922.....Lord, that would of been enough to give me a heart attack of joy and awe!!

 

It would!
I saw a documentary on the Sutton Hoo Treasure (Anglo Saxon) the other day. Finding that would have given me even more of a heart attack, but then I love early Medieval European jewellery.

This is part of the treasure:

 

Yes Any, a sublime find, some of the artifacts found are stunning...that would most likely give me a heart attack. My wife is off to London next week and will surely not miss going to see these treasures in Room 41 of the BM

 

Oooh, lucky lady! Wish her a good time from me.

 

What a wonderful, wonderful thread, you guys. Love the bracelet, love the history, love the comparators. Yum!

 

Forgot to say, I saw it too. It is stunning, and all those red pieces are real garnets, all the way from India. A lot of the jewellery and components point to extensive contacts with the rest of the Old World, trade and otherwise.

Pommel and other sword ornaments, the little pyramid shapes even have a tiny chequer board design on top: