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<p>[QUOTE="PepperAnna, post: 7162083, member: 17332"]About a year ago, I posted about this Etsy seller who was making reproduction Victorian jewelry. She has gotten more sophisticated and I wanted to share one of the "cameos" in her shop. I just wanted to warn people, but it could easily seem real from the pictures. She doesn't explicitly say her items are reproductions in the title, but clearly says so in the written description. She has lots of reproduction items in her shop- cameos, mourning jewelry and now even tortoise shell pique jewelry and hair combs. She doesn't mark her items as reproductions, although I have suggested it to her. She is using a C clasp on the back, but not a T pin stem. I could see how people could easily be duped into thinking these items were real antiques, especially the mourning jewelry, once it is re-sold. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another Etsy seller does something similar with lover's eye jewelry and portrait miniatures- she uses antique settings and places her own paintings within them. They look very real. She doesn't mark them in any way.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]421797[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]421798[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]421799[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]421803[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]421804[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PepperAnna, post: 7162083, member: 17332"]About a year ago, I posted about this Etsy seller who was making reproduction Victorian jewelry. She has gotten more sophisticated and I wanted to share one of the "cameos" in her shop. I just wanted to warn people, but it could easily seem real from the pictures. She doesn't explicitly say her items are reproductions in the title, but clearly says so in the written description. She has lots of reproduction items in her shop- cameos, mourning jewelry and now even tortoise shell pique jewelry and hair combs. She doesn't mark her items as reproductions, although I have suggested it to her. She is using a C clasp on the back, but not a T pin stem. I could see how people could easily be duped into thinking these items were real antiques, especially the mourning jewelry, once it is re-sold. Another Etsy seller does something similar with lover's eye jewelry and portrait miniatures- she uses antique settings and places her own paintings within them. They look very real. She doesn't mark them in any way. [ATTACH=full]421797[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]421798[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]421799[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]421803[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]421804[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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