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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 337581, member: 2844&quot;]Hi Chris, I see you are continuing the Wayang theme, yes they are Wayang puppets.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And I agree, a nice buy for AU$ 9.95.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a Yogya (Djokja) silver bracelet. 800 is the usual fineness for pre-1960s Yogya silver.</p><p>The workshop mark is not in my list, but that is not comprehensive.</p><p>The bracelet was made in the period between ca 1930 and the 50&#039;s, in the old royal city of Kota Gede in central Java. The jewelry and silverware of Kota Gede were mostly sold in the nearby city of Yogyakarta, which is why it is called Yogya silver.</p><p>Up til 1972 Yogyakarta was written Djokjakarta, hence the alternative spelling Djokja silver.</p><p>Yogyakarta is now a royal city, and an important centre of Javanese culture. The term Javanese is confusing, the entire island is called Java, but the ethnic Javanese live mainly in Central Java.</p><p>Maybe this is the workshop mark:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]113258[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Could be a Z, which is not in my list either, or an N, which is in my list, but the list doesn&#039;t mention the name.</p><p>There were, and still are, countless silver workshops in Kota Gede. Now they mainly make exquisite filigree, and very tinny miniatures of street vendors, carts and becaks (Indonesian bicycle rickshaws), that kind of thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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