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A look back at ancestral handicrafts such as knapping flint tools, creating silver filigree, preparing gold amalgam for coating silver, creating ceramic objects, winding glass beads and more.

  1. Antique Turkoman Silver Pendant Asik Ersari Tribal Design

    by on 01-01-2012 at 03:39 PM (Crafts of the Past)
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    Antique Turkoman Silver Pendant Asik Ersari Tribal Design
    Antique silver Turkoman pendant called asik by the Turkoman. This plain ungilded silver with a certain cut of the gemstone is characteristic of the Ersari tribe of 1900, according to Dieter and Reinhold Schlechter, Old Silver Jewelry of the Turkoman.

    There are circular tracings for decorations
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