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<p>[QUOTE="quirkygirl, post: 239750, member: 106"]Just picked this up after winning it through a local online auction. It's a darling 1½" (3.8 cm) pendant consisting of two sterling scallop shells with plique-a-jour enamel that rotate open to reveal a tiny sterling turtle with an enameled shell ... the interior of the shell appears to have a gold wash on the silver ... if it was once also on the outside, it has long been polished off. </p><p>No maker's mark on it anywhere ... just the word "sterling". While looking for similar pieces, I came across pictures of pendants that open made by Meyle & Mayer of Germany ... but they used a dragonfly mark ... not present on my piece. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm looking for suggestions of other jewelry manufactures, who did similar work, that I can explore to try and find who or even where this was made.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]73180[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]73181[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]73182[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="quirkygirl, post: 239750, member: 106"]Just picked this up after winning it through a local online auction. It's a darling 1½" (3.8 cm) pendant consisting of two sterling scallop shells with plique-a-jour enamel that rotate open to reveal a tiny sterling turtle with an enameled shell ... the interior of the shell appears to have a gold wash on the silver ... if it was once also on the outside, it has long been polished off. No maker's mark on it anywhere ... just the word "sterling". While looking for similar pieces, I came across pictures of pendants that open made by Meyle & Mayer of Germany ... but they used a dragonfly mark ... not present on my piece. I'm looking for suggestions of other jewelry manufactures, who did similar work, that I can explore to try and find who or even where this was made. Thanks! [ATTACH=full]73180[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]73181[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]73182[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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