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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9850518, member: 2844"]The front is mounted on a black lacquered metal construction. That was usually the case with French pieces, others probably as well. The black lacquer is coming off, that often happens. It is called age-related wear.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>It is a lovely brooch.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Very nice bracelet. Did you get the lot from France? Maybe a souvenir from Alsace, with those storks and pine trees?</p><p><br /></p><p>It is what the Germans call "Autobahngold". Autobahn is the German word for highway, and Gold is ermmm....<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>In the 1960s and 70s dodgy sellers sold "gold" jewellery in parking lots and picnic areas along the German highways. It was often heavily marked but none of it was gold, and most of it wasn't even goldplated. This bracelet is typical of the notorious Autobahngold style.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9850518, member: 2844"]The front is mounted on a black lacquered metal construction. That was usually the case with French pieces, others probably as well. The black lacquer is coming off, that often happens. It is called age-related wear.;) It is a lovely brooch.:) Very nice bracelet. Did you get the lot from France? Maybe a souvenir from Alsace, with those storks and pine trees? It is what the Germans call "Autobahngold". Autobahn is the German word for highway, and Gold is ermmm....:confused::playful: In the 1960s and 70s dodgy sellers sold "gold" jewellery in parking lots and picnic areas along the German highways. It was often heavily marked but none of it was gold, and most of it wasn't even goldplated. This bracelet is typical of the notorious Autobahngold style.[/QUOTE]
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