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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IvaPan, post: 9437484, member: 78949&quot;]Any, one more issue I was wondering - I found online offers for faience scarabs mounted in 14 and 18 K gold and in .900 silver, and IMO, this leads to the conclusion that faience scarabs worth something (i.e. are of some value), especially if they are ancient, as you said. But in this case, the scarab is mounted in a base metal. It somehow puzzles me, I know that glass can be mounted in gold but never have heard about the opposite, i.e. diamonds mounted in base metal, and if we apply the same logic, the scarab shouldn&#039;t be faience. But it looks like faience and indeed looks nice, deserving more than silver plated base metal. Somehow. Maybe there is some peculiarity with these scarabs I am not aware of, for example there are many of them found in Egypt, or a lot of modern faience scarabs are made to mimic old scarabs. And still it just does not fit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I recall that I found recently a very ordinary looking brooch with a trombone clasp. I have always though that this type of clasp was used in 1920-30s to secure more valuable brooches and a simple hook was used for ordinary ones. And now that... Somehow does not fit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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