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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 353140, member: 5833"]Guessing you don't wear brooches all that often. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Since my 'thing' is cameos, brooches that come my way have a definite right way up. It is usual for the findings to be mounted so that the pin stem inserts through the fabric from right to left. Depending on the type of clasp, the pin goes into it from the bottom or the center, not the top. When I encounter a piece that violates these norms, I know it has come out of its setting & been replaced, deliberately or inadvertently, upside down, or the setting & cameo were not originally made for each other.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 353140, member: 5833"]Guessing you don't wear brooches all that often. :happy: Since my 'thing' is cameos, brooches that come my way have a definite right way up. It is usual for the findings to be mounted so that the pin stem inserts through the fabric from right to left. Depending on the type of clasp, the pin goes into it from the bottom or the center, not the top. When I encounter a piece that violates these norms, I know it has come out of its setting & been replaced, deliberately or inadvertently, upside down, or the setting & cameo were not originally made for each other.[/QUOTE]
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