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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4263234, member: 2844&quot;]Paying attention to the back is a traditional Austro-Hungarian Historic Revival thing, but this is an exceptionally nice back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is the back of a period Austro-Hungarian silver and citrine brooch for comparison:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]339190[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I think your brooch would have been popular with people like the Transylvanian Saxons, who loved their bling. They wore this style jewellery on festive occasions even at the time your brooch was made.</p><p>There are still members of Transylvanian Saxon folk groups in Germany who wear similar jewellery, they are descendants of ethnic German refugees from present day Romania.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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