Necklace with beads (sadi?)

late 1800s or early 1900s Source image
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This necklace has an abundance of phallic beads representing fertility framed by dozens of smaller silver beads. Specialists in gold and silver would melt silver into small balls that were then attached to drawn rods of metal. Atop each bead is a pile of small granulations; th...

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