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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 380121, member: 2844&quot;]I&#039;ve seen the museum site before, it is enough to give you Stendhal syndrome.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I even like the display cabinets.</p><p>Those drum stools are gorgeous, and I prefer them with all inlay, you lucky girl!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think your researching skills are fine, just think of all the Mississippi pearl flower brooches you found recently. But it is difficult, I know, and with gut feeling, yes sometimes right sometimes not. Ethnic jewellery, like the necklace, is notoriously difficult.</p><p>Just an example, when I bought these earrings in England, I initially thought they were Eastern Mediterranean. Filigree, although more delicate than Ottoman, Eastern Med loop setting, red coral. No marks, and couldn&#039;t find anything like them. They came without hooks btw.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]131207[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]131208[/ATTACH]</p><p>Then a few people said China. I thought no, not really.</p><p>Years later, while researching a Maya necklace, I suddenly came across several twins (triplets, etc.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) of my earrings. Turns out they are Mexican, either Oaxaca or Mexico DF! And I never saw them when I was in Mexico in the early 70s, they mostly sold Spratling style jewelry, or filigree with bows and rows of thin dangles.</p><p>So the thoughts on the origin traveled around the world and ended in a place I love. Who&#039;d have thunk!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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