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<p>[QUOTE="quirkygirl, post: 163624, member: 106"]Thanks for that suggestion Lucille.b, I suppose that it <i>could</i> be the previous owner's name ... looks as if each letter was stamped independently of the others ... in a sort of deco or simple nouveau font. </p><p><br /></p><p>The piece was gray with tarnish when I bought it ... so I'm pretty positive that rules out platinum. -- funny story about testing platinum ... I had what I thought was a platinum pin which had had all its stones pried out, so I took it to my jeweler for testing (yes ... some of you may remember him as the one who put a grinder to my old diamonds) ... this time he held my pin with tongs and took his torch to the end of it until it glowed cherry red (but retained its shape- even the prongs were still sharp)! I asked what would have happened if it had just been white gold, to which he replied ... it would have melted! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" /> I think he just likes to have fun with me. --</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyhow ... I've been wearing this mystery pendant as it is ... where it sits on me, I doubt that anyone will try to look close enough at it to easily notice the flaws to the main "stone" ... and those who try, might just get slapped!</p><p>[ATTACH]44722[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="quirkygirl, post: 163624, member: 106"]Thanks for that suggestion Lucille.b, I suppose that it [I]could[/I] be the previous owner's name ... looks as if each letter was stamped independently of the others ... in a sort of deco or simple nouveau font. The piece was gray with tarnish when I bought it ... so I'm pretty positive that rules out platinum. -- funny story about testing platinum ... I had what I thought was a platinum pin which had had all its stones pried out, so I took it to my jeweler for testing (yes ... some of you may remember him as the one who put a grinder to my old diamonds) ... this time he held my pin with tongs and took his torch to the end of it until it glowed cherry red (but retained its shape- even the prongs were still sharp)! I asked what would have happened if it had just been white gold, to which he replied ... it would have melted! :rolleyes: :eek: I think he just likes to have fun with me. -- Anyhow ... I've been wearing this mystery pendant as it is ... where it sits on me, I doubt that anyone will try to look close enough at it to easily notice the flaws to the main "stone" ... and those who try, might just get slapped! [ATTACH]44722[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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