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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 577173, member: 5833"]No, but they may have been using lab grown color change sapphires. Certainly there is a lot of 1940s Egyptian jewellery using them. I have a cross pin pendant marked Jerusalem/Silver/999 and a pair of almost matching earrings marked 900 that are set with color change sapphires, but do not know when they date to.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the current crop on eBay, ordered with the highest priced first:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=silver+jerusalem+cross&_sacat=48579&_sop=16" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=silver+jerusalem+cross&_sacat=48579&_sop=16" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=silver+jerusalem+cross&_sacat=48579&_sop=16</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Center stones of all different colors, including light blue, and silver fineness ranging from 900 - 999, with some just marked silver. Tricia's is the first one I can recall that was marked 800, making me wonder if it could have been made elsewhere & only marked Jerusalem to indicate it was a souvenir from there. Not sure it would feature a stone of that color if it was made before the nation of Israel was established.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 577173, member: 5833"]No, but they may have been using lab grown color change sapphires. Certainly there is a lot of 1940s Egyptian jewellery using them. I have a cross pin pendant marked Jerusalem/Silver/999 and a pair of almost matching earrings marked 900 that are set with color change sapphires, but do not know when they date to. This is the current crop on eBay, ordered with the highest priced first: [URL]https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=silver+jerusalem+cross&_sacat=48579&_sop=16[/URL] Center stones of all different colors, including light blue, and silver fineness ranging from 900 - 999, with some just marked silver. Tricia's is the first one I can recall that was marked 800, making me wonder if it could have been made elsewhere & only marked Jerusalem to indicate it was a souvenir from there. Not sure it would feature a stone of that color if it was made before the nation of Israel was established.[/QUOTE]
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