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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 10020030, member: 5833&quot;]I want to know about this.&nbsp; I love the little mechanical touches you find around the turn of the 20th or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wowza on the bracelet.&nbsp; I see it as an interesting melding of Silenus and the panther who is Bacchus&#039; companion animal, with the heliotrope stone suggesting some bloody [not UK usage of this word] meals.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the bracelet seller&#039;s site:</p><p><br /></p><p>‘Bacchus Forcing a Panther to Drink.’</p><p><br /></p><p>Not quite what is said in Forrer, although that is quite clearly their source of info.</p><p><br /></p><p>Learned just last week that an antique jewellery seller I know, who travels to shows, was robbed of much valuable stock while it was on the road.&nbsp; Among the things taken was a wonderful gold hinged cuff with a large shell cameo of The Laughing Faun/Silenus.&nbsp; The last time I saw them before last week, after admiring the bracelet for a couple of years, I finally asked to try it on &amp; we all learned it would not fit any wrist larger than mine.&nbsp; They urged me to get it, promising a good deal, but I knew it was not something I would ever wear, &amp; I&#039;m at the age where I need to deaccession, not acquire more pieces.&nbsp; Also knew that a &#039;good deal&#039; was still going to be a lot of money.&nbsp; So wish now that I had sold my soul for that bacelet.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie39" alt=":dead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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