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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 3853724, member: 360&quot;]I was contacted earlier this week by a man who was <a href="http://www.throughouthistory.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.throughouthistory.com/" rel="nofollow">reading my blog</a>, (&lt;&lt;click if you want to see it), while looking for information on an antique that he&#039;d found. He said that I might be interested in something that he&#039;d come across while digging through a pile of scrap gold. </p><p><br /></p><p>He introduced himself as a semi-retired antiques dealer, and said that, if I wanted them, I could have them - for a reasonable price, of course. We exchanged phone numbers and haggled via text, and he sent me photos of the item in question. </p><p><br /></p><p>He said he was interested because of the blog post I&#039;d written about the antique silver cufflinks I&#039;d added to my collection, with my old highschool crest on them (some of you may remember, I made a posting here about them last year). </p><p><br /></p><p>He had found the matching gold ones! We agreed on a price, with express postage included, and he sent them off to me. They arrived yesterday! </p><p><br /></p><p>You can see the gold ones at the top, and the silver ones below... </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]319183[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]319184[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]319185[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]319186[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Marks for sterling silver, and 9ct gold ^^^ </p><p><br /></p><p>The cufflinks are pre-war, as far as I know. Sometime between about 1925 - 1939. Can&#039;t be further back than that, because the school coat of arms was different before 1924, and the style looks a bit old to be postwar. The jewelers that made them - DAMMANS - is G. Damman &amp; Co. They were a Melbourne tobacconists&#039; and jewelers&#039; firm operating in the city for over 100 years, between 1854 up until the late 50s, maybe 60s? I can&#039;t find any information on when they &#039;went under&#039;. </p><p><br /></p><p>I imagined that these are quite rare. I&#039;d never heard of the silver links before I&#039;d bought them, and never even IMAGINED that gold ones existed, so when I found out, I absolutely had to have them!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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