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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 2326109, member: 111&quot;]Good to know, Swede - thank you for the additional information.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Though long gone by my birth, both of my father&#039;s grandmothers were Danish emigrants, but I was fortunate enough to know one of my great-grandmother&#039;s younger sisters, my great-great-aunt Karen (born in 1885).&nbsp; Have always been interested in Vikings, and attracted to Scandinavian design, both traditional and modern - have been a silver collector since my teens, a picker/dealer since the &#039;80s, and enjoy research.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for sharing - nice pieces shown, and she clearly loves her subject, we could probably discuss a few things (the book she referenced looked interesting, but wouldn&#039;t be willing to pay the price it goes for).&nbsp; Did find the narrative on the Hjortdahl brooch a bit odd, not sure why a Norwegian enamalist would depict a Minnesota mosquito, but of course it&#039;s not a mosquito anyway (they only have two wings), it would be a dragonfly, or perhaps a wasp (though apparently a mutant 8-legged insect)...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]259793[/ATTACH]&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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