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Artful Silver Acupuncture Case for Needles and Medicine
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Pre 1900 item# 1000928 (stock# 0510)
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Korean Art and Antiques
917-675-1369
$750
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A Beautifully and Artfully Rendered Silver Korean Acupuncture Case for Needles and Medicine, with gorgeous and individually hand-rendered panels with dragons, rabbits, and birds surrounded by writhing trees and flora, symbols of love, health, longevity, and good fortune, topped by a plum blossom on the lid, symbolizing courage. It opens up to reveal a bottom section for acupuncture needles and a top section for medicinal herbs, as seen in the second photo here. The chain is built into the piece. 4.75 inches, 12 cm; including chain: 6.75 inches, 17 cm.
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Silver Lotus Hair Pin with New Year Flower of Carnelian
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Pre 1900 item# 1001020 (stock# 0527)
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Korean Art and Antiques
917-675-1369
$250
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Korean Hair Pin with a New Year Spear Flower of Carnelian inside a Silver Lotus Blossom, both symbols of renewal. A silver plum blossom, symbol of courage, adorns the top of the flower. All of the hair pins on this site are from one amazing and beautiful collection that remained in the same family since the 19th Century. Korean Antique Twiggoji Hair Pins are a pioneering and underpriced area of collecting. Twiggoji were used by Korean ladies specifically for the chignon hair buns that were popular during the Joseon Period. 7.5 inches, 19 cm.
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