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<p>[QUOTE="KSW, post: 9611671, member: 8708"]I’ve got several necklaces made with gold plated square wire like this. I think they are 1930’s? They mostly have hooks not spring rings. I wonder if yours started off life as a necklace, broke and was repurposed and reclasped as a bracelet?</p><p>I don’t know enough about stones to be even vaguely sure but the waves do look like agate. Do they look like the bracelet has been worn so much that the beads have been worn biconcave by the metal work or stones were cut like that originally?</p><p>If it has worn the stone that might give a clue as it would be a soft stone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="KSW, post: 9611671, member: 8708"]I’ve got several necklaces made with gold plated square wire like this. I think they are 1930’s? They mostly have hooks not spring rings. I wonder if yours started off life as a necklace, broke and was repurposed and reclasped as a bracelet? I don’t know enough about stones to be even vaguely sure but the waves do look like agate. Do they look like the bracelet has been worn so much that the beads have been worn biconcave by the metal work or stones were cut like that originally? If it has worn the stone that might give a clue as it would be a soft stone.[/QUOTE]
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