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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 319888, member: 5833&quot;]Both are what I think of as good costume, judging by photos.&nbsp; Going by pieces I have seen &amp; one I own, I have the impression that some makers of better costume pieces would import carved stones from Asia - guessing China, but I don&#039;t know for sure - for use in their own designs.&nbsp; I have a silver brooch by American maker <a href="http://www.milkywayjewels.com/lampl_article.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.milkywayjewels.com/lampl_article.html" rel="nofollow">Walter Lampl</a> that incorporates an amethyst carved as a plum, &amp; have seen other pieces that used a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&amp;biw=1600&amp;bih=767&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=1&amp;ei=zABPWr-KOIe0_Aao9InoCg&amp;q=jewelry+walter+lampl+jade&amp;oq=jewelry+walter+lampl+jade&amp;gs_l=psy-ab.12...32188.37954.0.41009.13.13.0.0.0.0.50.595.13.13.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.FX1stxOuuIw" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&amp;biw=1600&amp;bih=767&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=1&amp;ei=zABPWr-KOIe0_Aao9InoCg&amp;q=jewelry+walter+lampl+jade&amp;oq=jewelry+walter+lampl+jade&amp;gs_l=psy-ab.12...32188.37954.0.41009.13.13.0.0.0.0.50.595.13.13.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.FX1stxOuuIw" rel="nofollow">carved &#039;jade&#039;</a> element similar to these.&nbsp; They may not be true jade of any type, possibly dyed chalcedony, but still stone &amp; carved rather than glass &amp; molded.&nbsp; If molded, would expect that even if the swirls of color differed in all 3, lines &amp; perforations would be the same.&nbsp; As well as I can compare, these are each different.&nbsp; Lampl jewelry seems always to have been marked, but your brooch, with its deco touch of marcasite circles at either end, feels like it is from the same period.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can only say about the other brooch that it looks very well made &amp; suspect it catches the light nicely?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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