Silver and Gold Oriental Hamsa with Lapis Lazuli
This is a Hamsa pendant which is an amulet as well, based on three different symbols combined together: one which can be seen very clearly is the hand, which in fact is designed like a dove. On the left side, near the eye, the head of the dove and the body. On the body of the dove, if you look carefully you can see lines hinting to the lines of the human hand – the long life or the other meanings of this. And if you go up a little bit you can see the deep division between the second and the third finger which means a priestly blessing by the Jewish symbolism. Above this you could very well see the Lapis Lazuli stone, which is in fact a very beautiful blue, with the shining of the Pyrite which is the gold in the Lapis Lazuli. This amulet is made with a very special technique of nearly melting the silver, which means I do not use in this technique lathering technique, but I heat it nearly until the metal melts and this gives the very interesting and archaic look of the metal, as if it was made thousands of years ago. And within this design you can very well see the combination of silver and 24 karat gold inlayed into the design by very special antique methods which I will not discover the secrets of.
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Silver and Gold Oriental Hamsa with Aquamarine
The next item is a similar Hamsa amulet representing the dove and the hand as a priestly blessing, in the same technique as nearly melting the silver, with the using of inlay of 24 karat gold. This time above the pendant there is an aquamarine stone which symbolizes clear life and happiness for the future; because it collects the light of the sun, and it’s clear like water.
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Silver and Gold Oriental Hamsa with Amethyst
In the next pendant we have the body of the dove within the hand, which represents the priestly blessing, again with the 24 karat gold. This time the stone above the gem is facetted polished amethyst.
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Silver Oriental Hamsa with Smokey Quartz
The next Hamsa is in the Moroccan or Tunisian or Maghreb countries Jewish way of designing the Hamsa. Here again I use the technique of highly heating the metal, nearly melting the metal, and by this method I combine the different parts. The stone here is smoked quartz which shines very beautifully when the light reflects on it.
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Silver Oriental Hamsa with Eilat Stone
The next is the same style of Maghreb Jewish Hamsa design. You have here the right and left like two outside fingers and the three to make the five. Here there is a beautiful, very large Eilat stone. Eilat is in fact very close to the Malachite. It contains a very high quantity of copper in the stone. There were copper mines down in the south of Eilat, near Eilat, and that’s how it got its name – Eilat stone.
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