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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 558790, member: 2844&quot;]The earrings have arrived, and I have replaced the missing coral bead. The bead next to it needed some extra wire or it would fall of as well. Luckily I had some old gilded brass wire much like the original bead wire among my repair stuff, which was thin enough to pass through the beadholes.</p><p>The original earhooks were lost in the mists of time, and the earrings came with recent kidney wires. The wires were so thin they had too much room to move about and could potentially damage the coral, and the pendants kept slipping off the bend in the wire they were supposed to stay in.</p><p>So I made some shepherd hooks (with 19th century style long straight ends) from gilded eye pins. They can move a bit, but not so much that they damage the coral.</p><p><br /></p><p>To refresh your memory, the photo from the listing, coral bead missing at the top of the one on the left:</p><p><img src="https://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/7/4/0/7/0/4/webimg/1023591488_tp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Top bead added, bead to the right of it re-wired, simple home made 19th century style shepherd hooks, and a teeny spot of white enamel on the lower left &#039;restored&#039;:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]170866[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess I saved myself 597.25 pounds.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And needless to say I am wearing them right now.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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