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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kyratango, post: 622627, member: 5006&quot;]The images above (not catalogues, but full page advertisements in newspapers) will allow people here to see the high quality of the pieces sold by the Company<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> They were too famous (then!) for the &quot;Orient Pearls&quot;, so perfectly made to imitate the most expensive natural pearls<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Of course, the &quot;diamonds&quot; are simulant paste! Nowadays laws don&#039;t allow the use of the word for imitations, but then...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie45" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I got all Internet available images... Bought too some pages from old ads sellers...</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks [USER=5833]@Bronwen[/USER] for resuming the concern of these jewelry pieces<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Even since being able to relate them to the Parisian Diamond Company, I always thought and think they were probably made in Pforzheim or that part of the world<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>With WWII heavy bombing of Pforzheim, most of the archives are lost<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I E-mailed to the Pforzheim Schmuck Museum with no answer...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shifty:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Even if there is &quot;Parisian&quot; in the name of the company, this is not French made... The Company is advertised in one or too 1890s sheets to be also present in Paris, but I wasn&#039;t able to find an address or a French advertisement for it<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie19" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting maker&#039;s mark with the &quot;poterie grecque&quot;, this one I haven&#039;t saw while searching![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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