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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 622464, member: 5833&quot;]So we have a company called The Parisian Diamond Company located in Great Britain, and beautifully designed and made silver jewellery that is not always sterling and does not have British sterling marks on it.&nbsp; We also have a Frenchwoman who seems to find it in a way those of us located elsewhere do not.&nbsp; Are we looking at a collaboration between an English maker of artificial diamonds &amp; a French designer/maker?</p><p><br /></p><p>In the photo of the backs of all those pieces, was interested to see the transition in hinge type, with none I can spot having any type of safety clasp.&nbsp; They really are made like fine jewellery of the period, with jewelled bails for the pendants and removable fittings for the convertible pin/pendant.</p><p><br /></p><p>To add to your document collection, found this:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-24ec-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-24ec-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99" rel="nofollow">https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-24ec-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=831864&amp;t=w" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Alamy has a number of images:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/parisian-diamond-company.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/parisian-diamond-company.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/parisian-diamond-company.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Quite a lot comes up in a Google search for the company conducted from the US.&nbsp; I know sometimes things available here are not in the EU due to different copyright law.&nbsp; Most of them seem to be catalogue covers.&nbsp; This one from 1902 should catch your eye [Edit: just realized you have already seen it]:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]181403[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.printsandephemera.com/ourshop/prod_5602763-The-Parisian-Diamond-Company-1902.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.printsandephemera.com/ourshop/prod_5602763-The-Parisian-Diamond-Company-1902.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.printsandephemera.com/ourshop/prod_5602763-The-Parisian-Diamond-Company-1902.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not really a match, but this is the mark for Gaston Potier, evidently a bit of a pun, as the device is described as <i>une poterie grecque</i>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]181395[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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