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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 390591, member: 2844&quot;]You could be right, and testing is always good.</p><p>Just make sure your friend doesn&#039;t use testing acid directly on the pendant, but uses a ceramic testing stone. If it isn&#039;t solid silver, acid could ruin the pendant.</p><p>Here is how you use a testing stone, you rub an inconspicuous part of the pendant on the stone until a metal stripe appears. A drop of the liquid is placed on the stripe. The colour tells you the silver content, if any.</p><p><br /></p><p>Small glass cabochons, like your small turquoise coloured ones, were often used in silver and even gold in most of Central Europe and the Balkans.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Bohemia decorative glass, like your central cabochon, was usually set in brass which was sometimes gilded, but the Bohemians also set decorative glass in silver.</p><p>There were strict guild regulations which ruled that only silversmiths could use precious metals and stones. &#039;Gürtler&#039;, a different group of jewellery makers, were only allowed to use (gilt) brass and glass.</p><p>Of course the rules were broken sometimes, and there was some cooperation between silversmiths and Gürtler.</p><p>Bohemia was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Later it became part of Czecho-Slovakia. During both periods the region was internationally renowned for jewellery manufacture.</p><p><br /></p><p>Will you let us know the result?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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