Busacca Gallery

A Spectacular Old Handmade Tribal Cuff Bracelet: 5"L x 4"D opening appox. 2-3/8" Tribal solid bronze cuff bracelet with chased and decorated applied wire, silver plated. ca. 1800 to 1900's. Condition: Age wear. The decorative techniques during this period were fabulous as ornamentation appeared everywhere with this kind of jewelry. Medium to heavy weight. This is very old ethnic tribal costume jewelry. We are committed to enhancing our customer’s lives by discovering creating, and pointing out only the best art we can find in the world today. We Are Taste-Makers, Art Advisers & Consultants.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewellery

In creating jewellery, gemstones, coins, or other precious items are often used, and they are typically set into precious metals. Alloys of nearly every metal known have been encountered in jewellery. Bronze, for example, was common in Roman times. Modern fine jewellery usually includes gold, white gold, platinum, palladium, titanium, or silver.



Other commonly used materials include glass, such as fused-glass or enamel; wood, often carved or turned; shells and other natural animal substances such as bone and ivory; natural clay; polymer clay.







Silversmiths, goldsmiths, and lapidaries methods include forging, casting, soldering or welding, cutting, carving and "cold-joining".



jewelers also work in silver and gold, and many of the techniques for working precious metals overlap, the trades of jeweler and Silversmith have distinct histories. Chain-making and gem-setting are common practices of jewelers that are not usually considered aspects of silversmiths.