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<p>[QUOTE="Marie Forjan, post: 35577, member: 147"]In their day early plastics were the latest and greatest, I can see plastics being set with silver. Today I was going through my stock reorganizing and found a Deco rhinestone dress clip I thought was silvertone, found it is stamped sterling <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Gold and silver are high right now but that hasn't always been so. During WWII costume jewelry companies couldn't get base metals that were needed for the war effort so many turned to silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marie Forjan, post: 35577, member: 147"]In their day early plastics were the latest and greatest, I can see plastics being set with silver. Today I was going through my stock reorganizing and found a Deco rhinestone dress clip I thought was silvertone, found it is stamped sterling ;) Gold and silver are high right now but that hasn't always been so. During WWII costume jewelry companies couldn't get base metals that were needed for the war effort so many turned to silver.[/QUOTE]
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