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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 2258518, member: 2844"]France did manufacture for the North African market, but those roundish marks with the cross-hatching couldn't be more North African if they tried.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The decoration on this style is very detailed, but not as flamboyant as Austro-Hungarian. The Austro-Hungarian Historic Revival style goes overboard in a wild Central European frenzy of Baroque and Renaissance.</p><p>The Citedine European inspired style is more constrained.</p><p>The European influence comes mainly from ethnic Italian silversmiths who settled in North Africa centuries ago. It had to blend in with Citedine taste, which is opulent, but never ott in design.</p><p>The North African Italian culture became a creole culture, mixed with Moorish (=Berber-Arab mix) and Jewish. They became North African to such an extent that many Italian Tunisians spoke French and Arabic, not Italian.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 2258518, member: 2844"]France did manufacture for the North African market, but those roundish marks with the cross-hatching couldn't be more North African if they tried.;) The decoration on this style is very detailed, but not as flamboyant as Austro-Hungarian. The Austro-Hungarian Historic Revival style goes overboard in a wild Central European frenzy of Baroque and Renaissance. The Citedine European inspired style is more constrained. The European influence comes mainly from ethnic Italian silversmiths who settled in North Africa centuries ago. It had to blend in with Citedine taste, which is opulent, but never ott in design. The North African Italian culture became a creole culture, mixed with Moorish (=Berber-Arab mix) and Jewish. They became North African to such an extent that many Italian Tunisians spoke French and Arabic, not Italian.[/QUOTE]
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