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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 9547327, member: 29"]Those souvenir older brooches are often silver, even if lower grade and the bar looks if too. The flower looks pot metal. As bronwen said, it’s clunky and the colour is also wrong. </p><p><br /></p><p>it’s less common to see Victorian and Edwardian white metal jewellery which is base, it’s more often silver. Unlike gold, the stimulants weren’t there, as it were, other than pewter say. So you get pinchbeck or brass or gilded brass, but not so many silver lookalikes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 9547327, member: 29"]Those souvenir older brooches are often silver, even if lower grade and the bar looks if too. The flower looks pot metal. As bronwen said, it’s clunky and the colour is also wrong. it’s less common to see Victorian and Edwardian white metal jewellery which is base, it’s more often silver. Unlike gold, the stimulants weren’t there, as it were, other than pewter say. So you get pinchbeck or brass or gilded brass, but not so many silver lookalikes.[/QUOTE]
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