Silver - Enamel - Fish Pendant
This is a fish, also an ancient symbol of “Proo Urvu” ( Hebrew) - multiply – which is the first commandment, not from the Ten Commandments, but this is what God said to Adam and Eve: “Proo Urvu – have many children.” The fish symbolizes having a large family, many children, and we, the Jewish say in celebrations: “Let us be like fish with many, many children.” Here again it’s baked or heated enamel into a handmade pattern of fish. The edge of the silver plate, if you would kindly enlarge the picture, you will see that this has very high edges to contain the enamel. And here I choose to use these red and purple colors of this fish. This is made by hand but it could be used with many colors as well.
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Silver - Snake - Garnet - Rudolite - Necklace
This is a little tricky to explain. It’s a love pendant, and if we talk about love, we cannot avoid talking about what’s between him and her, man and woman. And I leave it to you to decide whether they are married or not yet, in the future, but anyhow, you can see the snake, which is a sex symbol, an energy symbol. And this snake as I made it, I admit looks very energetic. This snake keeps the blood red stone of garnet – Rodolite. It reflects very beautifully like blood energy, which of course has a lot to do with the energy of life and love. And this snake also dangles within its curves of the body the heart which just waits to be connected to the beloved other soul. All the rest, whether it’s a man or a woman who listens to my explaining, you can add whatever you like to this beautiful snake, full of energetic carving, keeping the treasure of love.
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Silver - Snake - Amethyst - Moonstone - Necklace
The next is even more complicated – I would require your very deep concentration and thinking. I call this set, there are two more of this kind, “Secrets of the Heart.” Why secrets? Because if you look at the snake, the energy of love, is crawling over, or spirals itself over, it is like the ancient scroll. Nobody is allowed to get into this inner scroll of the heart – this is why it is “Secrets of the Heart.” If someone tries to look inside the scroll, and no one is in fact allowed to look into another’s secrets of the heart, there are the secrets which are kept by the snake who also keeps the stone above, it’s an amethyst, facetted shaped, a beautiful, rather bright amethyst, and beneath like a tear drop, there’s a blue moonstone, or rainbow moonstone, like a tear drop. Well, I wouldn’t try and guess what kind of secrets are kept very well by the snake which causes the ancient scroll to drop its tears, and I would leave it to you to decide whether you would like to get near the person, to know him or her much, much better.
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Silver - Snake - Blue Sapphire - Pearl - Necklace
In the next one we have again the ancient scroll of the heart, Secrets of the Heart, and now I will add another detail of the technique which is again, the ancient scroll is made by a very high level of heating the metal, in order to create the feeling of an old scroll or something which is not made by hand. I didn’t file It, I didn’t saw it, I just rolled the sheet of metal silver, 925 sterling silver. Around this ancient scroll which hides the secrets of the heart there is a blue sapphire stone. Below, as a tear, there is a Barock gray pearl, which is non symmetric, and you cannot find two which are exactly of the same shade or form. Here I use this very beautiful pearl as a tear to combine the blue of the sapphire and the gray or rather dark gray of the silver.
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I must admit, I love these, but of course I am not objective. I love these items, first of all because they are definitely not of any usual thing that you might see in the next door shop. And besides, it creates a very intimate feeling and a kind of curiosity and wish to know better about what the hell there is to know about this curiosity arousing design.
Silver - Gold - Opal - Necklace
The next item, I call it archaic design. Archaic, because you can see from first sight that this is handmade, made by hammer. A rather thick sheet of silver, 925 sterling silver. All the connections are made by bending the silver, not so much by welding. But you can rather feel, if not see the rather primitive way of which I used to make this pendant , on purpose not to achieve any industrial way of looking. Have a good look at the opal, unfortunately I cannot move it under the camera, but this opal has at least five different shades, from green, yellow, to deep red, to purple, to orange red. It’s a very fine opal stone, set in 18 karat gold on a rather high, you can see by the shadow on the right side – you will see that the opal is set on a high frame of silver and then set in gold line to keep the stone very alive and warm.
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