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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9497529, member: 2844&quot;]Beautiful cuff links, Simona, thank you for tagging me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it is those chubby cheeks that make her look as a child, but she is a woman. A chubby woman, probably.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is not a fashion picture, it is a picture of a woman in regional costume.</p><p>She is probably meant to be Italian, as others said, but the headdress of parts of central and southern Italy is a white shawl with the top folded in a square. It doesn&#039;t have a band around the head, which the one on the cufflinks has.</p><p>So the enamel probably wasn&#039;t made in Italy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know porcelain placques of girls in regional dress were made in Germany, ca 1900. I have one of a girl in Greek dress, which is pretty accurate.</p><p>I think your &#039;Italian&#039; lady may have been made in Germany, by someone who didn&#039;t quite understand how a folded shawl would stay on the head and added a band.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The way to secure shawls or lace caps to the head is the same as hats, simply pins, either through the hair or through a small skullcap.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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