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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dessert58, post: 9616467, member: 78465&quot;]What a find! Its a beauty.</p><p>These plaquettes where brought back as souvenirs from Italy. These make excellent souvenirs: tiny and not heavy to carry when you are making a Grand Tour.</p><p>They were often bought as plaquettes and at home brought to the jeweler to be set as brooches/ pendants/earrings...</p><p>Or not.</p><p>You can find them without findings almost more often than with the findings.</p><p>So my thought is the plaquette might be older than the brooch itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>But thats just my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>anyhow, birds and chickens in particular are very collectible.</p><p>So, well done![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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