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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 904685, member: 5833&quot;]OK, does that side of your family come from Russia?</p><p><br /></p><p>If it were gold &amp; made in Imperial Russia, it would be marked.&nbsp; In the unlikely case it were made in the USSR, it would be very conspicuously marked.&nbsp; It is not likely that the back is brass &amp; the front gold, although back could be gold filled, something that way.&nbsp; I think it is very pretty &amp; looks very well made.&nbsp; I encourage you to have a jeweller test whether any parts are solid gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>If your family has a Russia connection, the story I&#039;m building in my head is that this is jewellery made to express loyalty to the Czar but that it was not made in Russia.&nbsp; Something a Russian expat might wear.&nbsp; Fantasy, unless it fits with family history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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