482 Ancestral Rabari Tribal Necklace Choker

Gold Necklace Choker with granulated omanentation

Kutch, Gujarat, India,

Made by fixing the gold pieces onto a band of cloth

Gold medallions with  green and red beveled beads that are most probably glass.

The Gold Beads contain shellac.

Old and Unique – quite a show stopper.

Age unknown but estimated to be from the early 1900s

Superb piece of tribal jewelry that is hardly ever available commercially.

Update: We have now arranged with a fine-art shipper to ship out gold jewelry worldwide

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This item has spent a lifetime being used for the purpose of its creation with the original artist/user. Signs of this life lived heartily may be present on the piece in the form of stains, thread loss, loose threads, holes, tears, color run and other imperfections. Therefore the condition must be assumed to be “not” perfect. More photos of such imperfections will be provided on request.

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