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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lizjewel, post: 4086736, member: 13874&quot;][USER=29]@Ownedbybear[/USER] The images are not meant to represent look-a-likes to Marko&#039;s brooch/pendant, only to show that the majority of brass stampings originated in RI and MA.</p><p>Some facts to keep in mind here: After WW I ended Czechoslovakia, Germany were pretty much decimated in infrastructure. Widows and their children starved.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Allies with US in the lead poured support into these countries. Not always straight monies only, the aid came in the form of product. From RI, MA, brass stampings, raw without plating were supplied to stock industries where the widows (and children too, laws were different then) could work setting the glass stones (of which there was plenty left since before the war) in c.j.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plating was expensive, however, so the gold or silver plating on the Czech and German production was as a rule much thinner than it would have been in the U.S. So thin sometimes that the back of the pieces hardly saw any plating. The pieces so finished in Czechoslovakia, Germany, were then brought back into the U.S. to sell at retail. Very cheaply actually, since it was more or less an effort to support the wartorn nations and the supplies had already been paid for by U.S. taxpayer funds.</p><p><br /></p><p>More archived images: Salvatore stampings interior, woman at machine, stampings on wall presentations.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]329446[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]329447[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]329448[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]329450[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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