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<p>[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 9505518, member: 78949"]Yes, place matters very much. our part of the world was closed behind the Iron Curtain for almost 50 years, and we were not allowed to travel freely. It is almost impossible to find here US jewelry, I learned from this forum about Trifary or Coro, or other famous American costume makers. Some European marks are known here although also impossible to find. Here there is a lot of Czech glass and Baltic amber, also coral from the Middle East.</p><p><br /></p><p>The countries in the socialist block were assigned specialisation in production of different goods, and jewellery was Czech specialisation because of glass making traditions, and USSR - because of amber deposits. The export jewellery (I mean exported to the West) was of much higher quality than the jewellery sold on the local market (local I mean Comecon market). Precious metals and stones were not sold locally, they were exported, and one had to have inherited family gold from before 1944 in order to wear golden jewellery. In my country there was some craft jewelry locally produced (made of wood, leather, and semiprecious minerals) and that's all, and they were ridiculously expensive. It was not like in the Western world where there was abundance of goods (incl jewelry) both locally made and imported.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 9505518, member: 78949"]Yes, place matters very much. our part of the world was closed behind the Iron Curtain for almost 50 years, and we were not allowed to travel freely. It is almost impossible to find here US jewelry, I learned from this forum about Trifary or Coro, or other famous American costume makers. Some European marks are known here although also impossible to find. Here there is a lot of Czech glass and Baltic amber, also coral from the Middle East. The countries in the socialist block were assigned specialisation in production of different goods, and jewellery was Czech specialisation because of glass making traditions, and USSR - because of amber deposits. The export jewellery (I mean exported to the West) was of much higher quality than the jewellery sold on the local market (local I mean Comecon market). Precious metals and stones were not sold locally, they were exported, and one had to have inherited family gold from before 1944 in order to wear golden jewellery. In my country there was some craft jewelry locally produced (made of wood, leather, and semiprecious minerals) and that's all, and they were ridiculously expensive. It was not like in the Western world where there was abundance of goods (incl jewelry) both locally made and imported.[/QUOTE]
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