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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kyratango, post: 560197, member: 5006&quot;]You are right, cut from a wall part of a nacreous shell and made from two (or more on some items) pieces, well chosen for shiny surface and convex shape, filled with a kind of gesso, join hidden by the ornate silver thin band<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>You may wonder how I know that...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Just because I once owned a similar&nbsp; battered and full of grime hatpin... and thought it should be a good idea to let it soak in luke warm soapy water for a while <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/redface.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie45" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>That wasn&#039;t my most brilliant idea<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /> the parts separated&nbsp; because of the gesso melt, and the band was invisibly broken<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie19" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>That happened way before I happened to be into kyratisations... so I kept only the needle and trashed the parts<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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