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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 331979, member: 5833&quot;]I definitely see a G.&nbsp; Fineness mark on the clasp tongue looks more like 900 to me.&nbsp; Assay office is most likely to be Cairo, although AJ is right, the Alexandria mark has a similar look.&nbsp; The mark on the box was really poorly stamped but I could see it as 18, so maybe 900 silver with 18K gilding.&nbsp; I have sometimes seen gilt items marked as 600 silver.&nbsp; This is a very nice piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have never seen a scarab of this type that did not have a hole running through it; don&#039;t think that feature says anything about age.&nbsp; I will agree that there is a fairly strong possibility the scarabs are excavated ones.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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