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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4667448, member: 2844&quot;]I have yet to see that. I think you may be talking about base metal trinkets, not the real Zeeuwse knopen.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think you&#039;ll have to go back further in history than you have so far. They were often decorative, but that was not their main function to start with. It was just a useful fastener to add status enhancing bits and bobs too, but that was secondary to its original function.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The first fibulae appear in Mycenaean <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Greece" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Greece" rel="nofollow">Greece</a> in the 12th(?) century B.C. and consist of a long pin looped back on itself with a small catch at one end. It resembles the simple safety pin <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Still" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Still" rel="nofollow">still</a> in use today - 32 centuries later.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=fibula" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=fibula" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=fibula</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Really.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have already posted it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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