Antique Yemen filigree silver Earrings is a traditional jewish yemeni technique, done showing the craftsmen expertise. This design shows a filigree flower, and lovely dangling silver bells to avoid bad spirits. All Yemeni jewellery is used as a talisman to protect the wearer. Measures 2.5 inches long including the dangles by 1 inches wide Good condition with usual dents Collectible and useful as jewelry supplies In its original setting, this piece would have hung among other such pendants, beads and coins on the neck of a wedding necklace made as bride wealth as was the custom in Yemen in the 1900s. It might have been attached to a fabric backing for the headpiece of the bride or it may have hung from the bottom strand of multiple rows of silver and amber beads, as we see in wedding photos and museum displays of Yemeni bridal dowries Bazarjawahara committed to providing first class customer service with an exceptional shopping experience. If you have any question, please don't hesitate to contact us. With a warm heart and expertise knowledge, our customer service representatives are competent professionals and very happy to assist you. Let's hear what our customers say, go to feedback page. i am form morocco an am a berber The Berbers were in North Africa long before anyone else, I guess, and are culture and arts have been influenced by the Phoenicians, the Greeks and Romans, the Goths, etc. but have always been distinctively are s. The music and dance is powerful and the weaving (a woman's art) and the jewelry are widely admired. Tiznit, where I am form is in a main Berber area, the tashelheit area in the South. Many people there speak only Berber. This is a center for Berber jewelry.