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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 289873, member: 2844&quot;]Bronwen has revived an Egyptian Revival thread?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is ca 1960. The writing on the back is Arabic.</p><p>The new boost to Egyptian Revival after the discovery of Tutankhamons tomb also gave a new boost to Egyptian jewellery, which lasts to this day.</p><p>Although Egypt has had a fantastic hallmarking system for a long time, not all Egyptian jewellery is marked. If a jeweller lived too far from any assay office, he/she often didn&#039;t bother to have it marked. Travelling for days with a load of silver to an assay office was not an attractive prospect in those days.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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