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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 3600867, member: 2844"]Like? LOVE!!!!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie53" alt=":hungry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Mediterranean coral, 19th century, traditional Italian. Could even be 18th century. The coral is likely to be Sciacca coral.</p><p>These are not souvenir earrings, the Italians wore them themselves, on big shepherd hooks. They were also a popular Grand Tour souvenir.</p><p><br /></p><p>The screwbacks are replacements imo. They are yellow gold, but the gold on the back of the one Bacchus face and on the chains is a shade between yellow and rose gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have never considered posts safe. The butterfly backs always got caught in my hair, scarf, or collar, and off the things came.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is what I would do, although my personal preference is leverbacks, like komo mentioned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 3600867, member: 2844"]Like? LOVE!!!!:hungry::happy: Mediterranean coral, 19th century, traditional Italian. Could even be 18th century. The coral is likely to be Sciacca coral. These are not souvenir earrings, the Italians wore them themselves, on big shepherd hooks. They were also a popular Grand Tour souvenir. The screwbacks are replacements imo. They are yellow gold, but the gold on the back of the one Bacchus face and on the chains is a shade between yellow and rose gold. I have never considered posts safe. The butterfly backs always got caught in my hair, scarf, or collar, and off the things came. That is what I would do, although my personal preference is leverbacks, like komo mentioned.[/QUOTE]
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