Antique Silver Berber Bracelet from Anti Atlas Mountains in Morocco Blue Enamel

  
The Berbers of the Anti Atlas Mountain have been famous for the skill and beauty of their silver work for centuries. I traveled to Tiznit, the center of making silver jewelry in 1968 with some English people I met who had been traveling there since 1953. Everyone knew them and saved up their silver for their annual arrival.

I was lucky to be invited on their trip and looking out over the Sahara from the high mountains was exhilarating. Talking to people , they said they even mined the silver there!

Tiznit was a small village at that time and the people were very pleasant and dressed very colorfully. This is a large cuff that fits a man, as you can see in the photos. The pin that holds it closed fits very tight and never slips out.

The cuff weighs 98 grams and is 2 1/2" across and the side is 1 3/8" high. The blue enamel work is very beautiful.

This is a great bracelet! BTW, if anyone remembers these English guys, Bernie, Jake, Mick and Lucy and Mick Hull. They were well known, I went to London with them after a stay in Paris during the Revolution in'68, no internet then.