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<p>[QUOTE="KylieS, post: 9426538, member: 22292"]Thank you, I'm so glad you like it! I'm not a jewelry buff - could you please describe how you reliably test for gold? I suppose I am going to have to have that tool in the kit too... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>It's quite a French thing to subtly declare your politics with symbolism, be it on your plates, with your art or in your jewelry - the national pass time being discussions on politics and philosophy - there wouldn't have been many people here at that time who wouldn't know of the symbolism of the bee for France. So I'll probably still mention it as a possibility when (or if!) I list it...I'm not meaning that they knew Napoleon or anything btw - just that their view might have been he was a top bloke. (will try to come up with some better writing on the subject than that tho <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="KylieS, post: 9426538, member: 22292"]Thank you, I'm so glad you like it! I'm not a jewelry buff - could you please describe how you reliably test for gold? I suppose I am going to have to have that tool in the kit too... ;) It's quite a French thing to subtly declare your politics with symbolism, be it on your plates, with your art or in your jewelry - the national pass time being discussions on politics and philosophy - there wouldn't have been many people here at that time who wouldn't know of the symbolism of the bee for France. So I'll probably still mention it as a possibility when (or if!) I list it...I'm not meaning that they knew Napoleon or anything btw - just that their view might have been he was a top bloke. (will try to come up with some better writing on the subject than that tho ;)[/QUOTE]
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