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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 9657982, member: 301&quot;]I&#039;m going to suggest that the pin...and catch, are old add ons .</p><p><br /></p><p>the gold slab where the pin is mounted interferes with two of the tiny sliding pin barrels to such a point that they would not have been required if the brooch was originally made that way.</p><p>Those two solderings seem to support a gold rim that looks damaged all the way round.....but specially there, where u can see one of the barrels has been torn away leaving the rim broken....</p><p><br /></p><p>The two missing front brackets support my theory that this wonderful brooch ... has been ...played with ....repaired.....altered......a lot ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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