Coin necklace – (Unknown Artist/Maker (German, 18Th Century)) Previous Next


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Date: 1935

Museum: The Ethnographic Museum in Kraków (Kraków, Poland)

Technique: Cotton

The necklace is made of brass plates – decorated with geometric patterns – joined alternately with brass rings from which 12 coins are hanging. The outermost plates are connected with a long, double-folded red ribbon that allows to adjust the length of the necklace. The coins, present here as a decorative element, were used as small change in Austria-Hungary between 1892 and 1918. At that time the monarchy

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