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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 381932, member: 5833&quot;]Think the main thing that gets found is dealers finding me annoying if I tell them their great big coral cameo with the great big price is really conch shell, or that their antique alexandrite jewellery is lab grown color change sapphire from sometime after 1940.&nbsp; It&#039;s a bit weird.&nbsp; They are really all trying to market to each other &amp; are not really set up to sell retail.&nbsp; But are usually too tied up at their own booth to do much looking at others.&nbsp; Have only once actually bought anything.&nbsp; Could not resist this locket with the dancing Pan on the front.&nbsp; The bail doubles as the hinge &amp; is set with little rubies.&nbsp; Both halves are carnelian.&nbsp; Sometime must try for better photos, but these give the idea:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]131983[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]131984[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]131985[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]131986[/ATTACH] </p><p>Should probably also put it on white; it does not look quite so dark in person.&nbsp; Still has glass for both interior compartments.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dealers are generally not keen to have you photograph their wares &amp; so much of what I see is super-bling, which I find boring.&nbsp; There are only a handful of dealers who ever have anything to my taste.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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