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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 5751671, member: 2844"]This pendant is one of many. I also have one, but it doesn't open. They were worn by regular country people, but their descendants don't appreciate them, so they are sold. I got mine from a seller in Austria.</p><p>Churches had bigger and better made items.</p><p><br /></p><p>Someone will find it while digging a new garden or vegetable patch.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Metal items (any metal) that were hidden here during WWII are still dug up regularly. The Germans needed any metal, to use for arms. They even used Medieval Dutch church bells if they could lay their hands on them. So many people hid precious items in the ground and planted some pretty flowers on top.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Someone I used to know found a rather valuable African bronze in the 70s while digging in the garden of his new house. He found out that it was one of the items that was hidden during the war.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 5751671, member: 2844"]This pendant is one of many. I also have one, but it doesn't open. They were worn by regular country people, but their descendants don't appreciate them, so they are sold. I got mine from a seller in Austria. Churches had bigger and better made items. Someone will find it while digging a new garden or vegetable patch.;) Metal items (any metal) that were hidden here during WWII are still dug up regularly. The Germans needed any metal, to use for arms. They even used Medieval Dutch church bells if they could lay their hands on them. So many people hid precious items in the ground and planted some pretty flowers on top.;) Someone I used to know found a rather valuable African bronze in the 70s while digging in the garden of his new house. He found out that it was one of the items that was hidden during the war.[/QUOTE]
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