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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 438945, member: 2844&quot;]&#039;After&#039; Frantisek Cermak, I&#039;d say. </p><p>Both paintings are situated in the Balkans, where Frantisek made several paintings. </p><p>The costume on both is either Kosovo, Albania or Macedonia, which were all just south of the Austro-Hungarian border in Ottoman occupied Europe. There was regular travel across the border.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a time when the Ottoman Turks prohibited music and dance in their part of the Balkans. The people would dance inside. </p><p>That is when those heavy coin necklaces came into being. The coins would clunk when the women were dancing. That would be their music, but it wouldn&#039;t be heard outside the house.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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