Vintage Marjorie Ransom, Yemeni, Sterling Silver, Turquoise Necklace 20\"
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Vintage Marjorie Ransom, Yemeni, Sterling Silver, Turquoise Necklace 20\":
$325.00
Unique and newly composedvintage Yemeni jewelry re-created by Marjorie Ransom, author of Silver Treasures from the land of Sheba.
This piece is 20\" long and is classic and beautiful, you can feel the richness of history that it carries with it.
We are including a bio from Marjorie\'s website for you to learn more about this amazing woman-
My late husband David Ransom and I collected Middle Eastern silver jewelry throughout our twenty years as a Foreign Service tandem couple in Arab countries. After my retirement in 2001, I began to organize and document our collection. I did lectures, exhibits and finally participated in a seminar on Yemeni culture at the Freer Sackler Gallery in 2003. There I gave my first lecture featuring only Yemeni traditional jewelry. I showed wonderful photos, but made it clear that I had done little research. No one had talked to the silversmiths and the women who wore the pieces. I was uniquely qualified to do the research, for I owned many examples and I speak Arabic.
When my beloved husband died suddenly three months after the seminar, I reached out for something to distract me from my grief. I applied for a grant to do research in Yemen. I made a return visit in the spring of 2004 to Yemen and when I returned got news that I had won a grant. I began research that fall. The rest is history.
The book has been very successful. It came out in late June 2014 and as of January 2015 it had sold 1500 copies. AUC Press will publish my book in paperback and I hope to get it translated into Arabic. I am preparing a second volume focusing on Yemeni silversmiths.
ABOUT MARJORIEWith the help of American Institute for Yemeni Studies research grants, Marjorie Ransom spent a year in Yemen in the 2004-9 period studying jewelry and costumes. She wrote a book on her findings,Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba: Yemeni Regional Jewelry, and plans a second volume on silversmiths.
Ms. Ransom lived twice as a U.S. diplomat in Yemen in a thirty-year career that took her also to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, Syria, and Egypt. She and David Ransom, her late husband, were the first Arabic-speaking tandem couple in the Foreign Service. Over the course of their career, they assembled acollection of more than 2000 pieces of Middle Eastern silver jewelry.
Ms Ransom has lectured widely in the US about the traditional jewelry of the Middle East and spoke about Yemeni silver jewelry at the Freer Gallery Symposium on the Cultural Heritage of Yemen in 2003. In fact, the idea of researching Yemeni jewelry came out of that seminar.
Vintage Marjorie Ransom, Yemeni, Sterling Silver, Turquoise Necklace 20\":
$325.00