Large Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead silver cuff 24mm long x 14mm diameter

24mm long x 14mm diameter with 2mm hole for stringing

Very cool light-weight antique coin silver amulet made in India and from the early 1900s

imported by Elliot

graduated beads

Antique bronze (or mixed metal) ring from Ghana

Large Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead silver cuff 24mm long x 14mm diameterThis very cool and magical bead was made in Kiffa, Mauritania. It is very old and was made as a female fertility charm, mainly by women artists. Historically, Kiffa beads are very important as its ancient technique (dating to 1000 years ago) made it one of the oldest glass bead making processes in Africa, which was purely African in origin. This bead is around 200 years old, possibly older, and it has been enhanced sometime in the early 1900s (the