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A Pierced Silver Amulet, Austro-Hungary, 19th Century

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Start price: $200

Estimated price: $600 - $800

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Cylindrical shape pierced with an
open work band of scrolling biomorphic motifs, and centered by blank,
rectangular cartouche, on a finely engraved with flowers and foliate ground.
Terminating with two domed shaped finials. Marked 800 (on the finial cap).

Length: 17 cm

Condition: Good

Provenance: Moskovits family
collection, Tel Aviv – Buenos Aires.

Notes:
For comparison, please see “A Budapesti Zsido Muzeum (The Jewish Museum in
Budapest)”, Text by Ilona Benoshofsky and Scheiber Sandor, 1987, p. 153,
item 160.