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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 3547450, member: 2844"]It is from Toledo, Spain. Gold and silver designs hammered into blackened steel. The colours are likely to be enamel, not paint.</p><p>A really nice brooch, probably 1960s.</p><p>The grey griffin/gryphon is silver. You can give it a gentle wipe with a sunshine cloth and it will shine again.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Those griffins are a traditional European Medieval and Renaissance motif, but some silly sellers think they are Chinese dragons.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 3547450, member: 2844"]It is from Toledo, Spain. Gold and silver designs hammered into blackened steel. The colours are likely to be enamel, not paint. A really nice brooch, probably 1960s. The grey griffin/gryphon is silver. You can give it a gentle wipe with a sunshine cloth and it will shine again.:) Those griffins are a traditional European Medieval and Renaissance motif, but some silly sellers think they are Chinese dragons.:rolleyes:;)[/QUOTE]
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