Afghan or Berber Artisan Ethnic Silver Belt Buckle Artisan Unsigned .500

Description

This is a vintage unknown silver belt buckle with not a single mark of any sort.  It's obviously hand-made, and tests positive for low grade silver. It's probably .500 to .700 as opposed to sterling, i.e. .925.  The buckle measures 1.75 in (4.5cm) x 4.25 in (10.7cm) My best guess is Afghanistan, but it could be North African, something else,  or a franken-piece - started in one country and finished in another.  The box may have been an amulet box of some sort. The bottom was lost or destroyed, and someone on the old Hippie Trail turned the lid into a belt buckle.
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