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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4774090, member: 2844&quot;]Of course you do!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Very sought after, especially by German collectors, for obvious reasons.</p><p>Schwäbisch Gmünd was little more than a village at the time, and these were home made, a true cottage industry. Only two men had learned to make enamel, so these were made within their working life. Two other men hawked the filigree wares in other parts of Southern Germany and Austria.</p><p><br /></p><p>Schwäbisch Gmünd was one of those European free zones, so they were relatively independent.</p><p>But that also meant they weren&#039;t part of the southern German and Austrian trade systems or infrastructure.</p><p>To be able to sell their crafts to Munich and other towns, the people of Schwäbisch Gmünd dug a road from what was then their isolated town to the main road. By the community for the community.</p><p>Those are the wonderful stories I like about ethnic jewellery.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Most of those enamel plaques are broken. These rosaries were often tucked into a belt, so they bashed into everything, including hard church benches.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie24" alt=":blackeye:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Poor little Jesusies.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I have photos of my two very different Schwäbisch Gmünd rosaries, I&#039;ll see if I can find them, for reference.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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