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Offline Jschulze

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Gold plated seal box? ID needed
« on: November 12, 2016, 08:25:08 pm »
Hi all,
Curious to know what this object is... Could it be a seal box? I'd appreciate any opinions on age, culture of manufacture or anything else you could tell me.

It's been crushed but would have been pretty fancy in its day. It looks gold plated... and the metal may be silver or another white metal.

It's 21x17mm but pre-crush would have probably been 20x20mm
3.5 grams

Thank you!

Josh

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Re: Gold plated seal box? ID needed
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2016, 09:25:15 pm »
Any idea where it came from?  Looks a bit like 18th-19th century Ottoman jewellery. 

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Re: Gold plated seal box? ID needed
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2016, 09:30:41 pm »
Not really... It was a "it's Friday, I've had a bottle of wine, let's burn some money" type of thing. I got it cheaply from a seller that sells metal detector finds out of Eastern Europe. I asked in a message but they had no further information. Thanks for any info or guesses you have!

Edit: one additional point of information. I originally thought those were hinges at the bottom but with a metal post through them... They could be feet for it to stand on end maybe? It's pretty small so I don't know what it could be for. It seems to be too big for an ear decoration and weirdly shaped for a pendant... Not sure...

Josh

 

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