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Message:: [QUOTE="interestingold&unusual, post: 3911824, member: 19629"]Hello! Further to the request I put up earlier for help identifying the marks on a ring that had come with a lot of silver jewellery, there was also this rather nice bar brooch. On examination the only marks I can find on it appear to say "9ct" stamped onto the back, which leads me to suspect it is a piece of 9ct white gold with a seed pearl. There is also a jewellers mark scratched onto the back of the brooch and "META" stamped onto the pin. The styling is art deco and I suspect it's probably from around the 1930s?  Was it normal somewhere in the world at that date to mark gold with "9ct"?  Thank you![ATTACH=full]321372[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]321373[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]321374[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]321375[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]321376[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]321377[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]321379[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]