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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 291748, member: 5833&quot;][ATTACH]94520[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]94521[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]94522[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]94523[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a bog oak Jubilee brooch I sold last year.&nbsp; It was darker to the eye than to the camera when contrasted with the black background, very light in weight.&nbsp; It was only rough where it was left rough.&nbsp; The beads are odd: all basically the same shape, but not all the same size; roughly finished, yet cleanly drilled.&nbsp; I don&#039;t understand why so many of them, maybe all of them, have a place on the side that looks a bit like a false start at drilling.&nbsp; In most places the surface looks pocked, like black olives that have had a bad case of acne.&nbsp; Other than the drill holes &amp; maybe some smoothing/flattening around the mouths of the holes, these do not look to me as though they were machined in any way, not turned on a lathe.&nbsp; Maybe someone else will apply their eyes &amp; tell us what they see.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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