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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 8687, member: 201&quot;]Yeah, Bev, I know that anything&#039;s possible. There&#039;s a bit of a back story that I didn&#039;t share, though, which may explain my hunch about them. </p><p><br /></p><p>I started making beaded jewelry in the late 60s and began selling it in the early 70s, both wholesaling the pieces and at shows. My mother, who was a textile designer, worked in a studio near the garment industry in Manhattan, about a block from the &quot;bead district.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>During the early to mid-70s, my mom would go over on her lunch hour or after work to the bead shops and pick out interesting things for me. She became friendly with the owner of one of the largest and oldest shops, who then let her go down in his basement storage area and rummage around stuff that had been sitting there a long time. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of what she bought from him were beads, but she found some old prefabricated beaded jewelry, too. Often my mother would keep bits and pieces of what she found for herself. </p><p><br /></p><p>These two bracelets were among my mother&#039;s things, and are so similar to the triplet beads I mentioned that I think there&#039;s a good chance they came from the same source... the basement of the bead shop. Plus I have a different style of wire wrap bracelet that was among the beads my mom gave me in the 70s that I know she bought from that shop. So I&#039;ll never know for sure, but all the evidence seems to point to these bracelets not being more recent. </p><p><br /></p><p>The moral of the story... become friends with your sources and they may let you rummage in their storage areas! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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