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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 416911, member: 5833&quot;]All the panels look like the one on the left, with the &#039;piano keys&#039; around the stone &amp; the green outside of that.&nbsp; For some reason those bits really caught the light.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://d3h6k4kfl8m9p0.cloudfront.net/stories/iXa6ACcYwjVcqr0olfZ94g.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea if this is true or not, just speculating that Israel, like so many other countries who used to have different standards for silver, may now have realized that 925/sterling is getting to be the norm &amp; begun using it instead of 900, 950,999 &amp; who knows what, so that these other degrees of fineness may indicate earlier age.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve put a lot of time/effort into trying to find out just when lab grown color change sapphires came on to the market.&nbsp; The one clear indicator I found was Egyptian jewellery using them; have never seen a piece with a date mark earlier than 1940.&nbsp; (There&#039;s a really comprehensive alexandrite site that erroneously says they were available in 1909.)&nbsp; There seems to have been a fad for them in the&nbsp; 40s &amp; again in the 60s.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen a lot of Jerusalem crosses that use them.&nbsp; Others have a non-changing purple or red stone.&nbsp; I&#039;m guessing the crosses were popular as souvenirs in the same period the Egyptian jewellery was being brought back.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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