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A nice old Afghan ring featuring a central agate cabochon and a silver setting with a great decoration. We know you love it and it is waiting for you.

An Afghan ring with a silver setting and turquoise cabochons, a central one and three smaller ones on both sides. Go for it!. 

An Afghan ring featuring a simple silver setting with a semicircular turquoise cabochon. A light and easy wearable design. What else can you ask for?

An old silver and turquoise ring from Afghanistan. Its design is elegant and its shows a nice patina. First half of the XXth century.

An Afghan ring with a silver setting and turquoise cabochons, a central one and some smaller ones on both sides. You want it and you know it. 

A lovely Turkoman Afghani necklace made of silver and transparent resin beads. Eye-catching and elegant. 1940

A very original Kuchi silver and glass necklace from Afghanistán. It is made of wonderful silver beads and larger bells beatifully ornated with engravings and glass cabochons. A trip to the "Arabian Nights". The Kuchi people, from the Persian -koch- meaning migration, are Afghan pashtoons nomads divided in a number of tribes that inhabit areas of Afghanistan and, to a lesser extent, Pakistan. Their jewellery is quite often very colourful using silver, glass and, in some fewer cases, enamel. Mid-XXth century. 

An exquisite silver and glass Kuchi necklace from Afgahnistán. It features two silver plaques beautifully decorated with engraved decoration and glass cabochons. From those plaques hang nine rows of different length of silver and glass beads. A most elegant sample of tribal art. The Kuchi people, from the Persian -koch- meaning migration, are Afghan pashtoons nomads divided in a number of tribes that inhabit areas of Afghanistan and, to a lesser extent, Pakistan. Their jewellery is quite often very colourful using silver, glass and, in some fewer cases, enamel. Mid-XXth century. 

A great old necklace from Turkoman tribes of Tadjik or Kyrgyiz origin, from Afghanistan. It features a central lovely old silver talisman box which would have contained texts from the Koran and coral, glass, silver and shell discs beads. This type of necklaces are often referred to as -wedding necklaces- and it is said that as they pass onto one generation to the next a new strand of beads is added. A beautiful old sample of these kind of necklaces that are becoming extremely hard to find. Early XXth century. 

A necklace of old bronze beads from Mali. Its appeal lies both in its simplicity and the lovely openwork of the beads.

An old Berber silver and enamel talisman -hirz- pendant from the area of Tiznit-Tafraoute in  Western Anti Atlas in Southern Morocco. It features a glass central cabochon affording protection to the wearer. It would contain some verses from the Holy Quran to protect its owner from evil. Protection would also be afforded by the use of pointed shapes in the design. Most likely a part of a necklace or a headdress. Other names: -herz-, -kitab-, -gris-gris-, -boîte à Coran-. First half of the XXth century.

An old Berber silver and enamel talisman -hirz- pendant from the area of Tiznit-Tafraoute in  Western Anti Atlas in Southern Morocco. It features a glass central cabochon affording protection to the wearer. It would contain some verses from the Holy Quran to protect its owner from evil. Most likely a part of a necklace or a headdress. Other denominations: -herz-, -kitab-, -gris-gris, -boîte à Coran-. First half of the XXth century. 

Three old Berber silver ornaments sourced in Tafraoute in the Western Anti Atlas in Southern Morocco. They all show niello and enamel decoration in green and yellow. One of them also features a red glass cabochon in its centre so that its protection power to the wearer is reinforced. Smaller nielloed pendants hang from the main plaques. These pieces would have been probably used as ornaments sewn onto a headband (taounza). Circa about mid-XXth century.

An old Berber silver and enamel talisman -hirz- pendant from the area of Tiznit-Tafraoute in  Western Anti Atlas in Southern Morocco. It features a glass central cabochon affording protection to the wearer. It would contain some verses from the Holy Quran to protect its owner from evil. Most likely a part of a necklace or a headdress. Other denominations: -herz-, -kitab-, -gris-gris, -boîte à Coran-. First half of the XXth century. 

A lovely old traditional Afghan Kuchi pendant. It is made of gilded silver and lively small glass cabochons. The decoration is particularly appealing and it is embellished with chained dangles. The Kuchi people, from the Persian -koch- meaning migration, are Afghan pashtoons nomads divided in a number of tribes that inhabit areas of Afghanistan and, to a lesser extent, Pakistan. Their jewellery is quite often very colourful using silver, glass and, in some fewer cases, enamel. Mid-XXth century or earlier.

A lovely old Berber silver and enamel talisman -hirz- pendant from the area of Tiznit-Tafraoute in  Western Anti Atlas in Southern Morocco. It features a glass central cabochon affording protection to the wearer. It would contain some verses from the Holy Quran to protect its owner from evil. Most likely a part of a necklace or a headdress. Other denominations: -herz-, -kitab-, -gris-gris, -boîte à Coran-. First half of the XXth century. 

An exquisite old Berber silver and enamel talisman -hirz- pendant from the area of Tiznit-Tafraoute in  Western Anti Atlas in Southern Morocco. It features a glass central cabochon affording protection to the wearer. The arrangement is further embellished with three dangles made out of three old Moroccan silver coins. It would contain some verses from the Holy Quran to protect its owner from evil. Most likely a part of a necklace or a headdress. Big size. Other denominations: -herz-, -kitab-, -gris-gris, -boîte à Coran-. First half of the XXth century. 

An old pair of Berber silver fibulae from Taliouine in the Western Anti Atlas in Southern Morocco made from two French silver twenty franc coins from 1937. Other names: -khelâla-, khelalât-. Circa first half of the XXth century.

An old pair of Berber silver fibulae from the Anti Atlas in Southern Morocco made with two Spanish silver coins from the reign of Amadeo I (1871). They show incised decoration and an attractive patina due to intensive traditional use. Other names: -khul lala-,-khelâla-, -khelalât-. Early XXth century.

A superb example of an old Pashtoon silver and glass necklace. This piece in an oustanding example of jewellery from that ethnic group. It is made of silver and glass cabochons, some of them faceted. Great workmanship, patina and piece. Certainly the real thing and not a modern version. Some of its features point out to the mainly Afghan nomadic group of the Kuchi people but the use of faceted glass takes us to the Pashtoon tribes of the Swat Valley in Pakistan. Early XXth century.