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<p>[QUOTE="Lecollectionneur, post: 460472, member: 8569"]This is not a swiss one, the back is not good and the quality is really not as fine, the bone when used id treated like ivory and very white, certainly cleaned with ammonia and oxygenated water(H2O2), the brooches with hunting scenes are more coming from germany, but you can found a lot of souvenir jewels with swiss towns names engraved with a very fine piercing and carving work, they are flowers too, roses, edelweiss etc…</p><p>The bails are just cut behind at the under part and then opened to mount on the medallion, the monkey is a pendant <a href="http://www.collection-passion.ch/_Media/_dsc5420.jpeg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.collection-passion.ch/_Media/_dsc5420.jpeg" rel="nofollow">as you can see</a>, there are cuts made to simulate the fur, not so finely carved than some others items but a good quality.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lecollectionneur, post: 460472, member: 8569"]This is not a swiss one, the back is not good and the quality is really not as fine, the bone when used id treated like ivory and very white, certainly cleaned with ammonia and oxygenated water(H2O2), the brooches with hunting scenes are more coming from germany, but you can found a lot of souvenir jewels with swiss towns names engraved with a very fine piercing and carving work, they are flowers too, roses, edelweiss etc… The bails are just cut behind at the under part and then opened to mount on the medallion, the monkey is a pendant [URL='http://www.collection-passion.ch/_Media/_dsc5420.jpeg']as you can see[/URL], there are cuts made to simulate the fur, not so finely carved than some others items but a good quality.[/QUOTE]
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