Antique Moroccan Amber Bead necklace 57 beads c1800s

Antique Moroccan Amber Bead necklace 57 beads c1800s

Note: Lovely well graded beads. Mixed honey shades. Both sharp and smooth edges.

57beads

Examples of these beads can be seen in the book;

“Ethnic Jewellery from Africa, asia and Pacific islands”.
isbn 90 5496 098 1

Known in other regions as Tesbih, Tasbih, Misbaha, Masbaha, Komboloi Rosary worry beads. These beads where formed by melting the brittle amber with other elements and dipping a string repeatedly into it until a snake like cylinder was formed. Then cut and filed into beads. These beads are an ambroid or Faturan type of bead. The smell of amber is released when applied to heat but does not float when added to salty water because of their changed composition.

Old Amber can be found all over the world, however it is becoming extremely rare. There is many different colours of Amber, ranging from Black Amber from India, Baltic Transparent (Sea) Amber, Ruby Amber and the various shades of Yellow, Orange and Red. Amber beads have many subtle graduations in colour, where there is clearly a complete variation in colour – it is due to other substances such as wood ash and other particles. These beads have great variation in opacity and colour values.

These beads we believe to be created from amber from the pleistocene period. REF: ” Amber window to the past” publication from the American Museum of Natural History. isbn 0-8109-1966-4

North Africa, c1800’s or earlier.

Private collection of Rick Bennet

Very good condition,

Length: Drop 29.5cms

63gms

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I will continue auctioning off almost the entire collections of “Rick Bennet”, a well known tribal art and oriental collector. Rick had large emporiums in Cairns, Brisbane and Noosa Heads, from 1975 and travelled extensively overseas as an importer for his businesses.

Over the years his father Norman Bennet, from Rose Bay, Sydney, Australia, gifted Rick with many considerable amounts of money to further his interest in ancient cultures and buy antiques and artefacts during his travels and at antique auctions, enabling Rick to build his private collections without using his business capital. As Rick has now retired he no longer has any shops or business activities and is seriously researching “the meaning of life”, keeping fit and healthy and looking forward to many travels to ancient destinations as a tourist. In so doing he cannot look after his collections, hence the dispersal.

The tribal art mostly comes from Indonesia, Timor, Burma, Papua New Guinea and Oceania. The oriental is from China, Indo-China, Japan and Indonesia. Australian Aboriginal and Asmat are in the collection as well.

The oriental includes Sung, Ming, Ching, Imari, Satsuma, Meiji, Famille Rose, Cloisonne, Bronze etc.

Rick’s private collection have been acquired during 38 years of travel importing 130 field trips since 1973 until 2002. Many pieces were also purchased from Lawson’s and Sotheby’s Tribal Art Auctions and Brisbane Antique Auction rooms.
 

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