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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 602179, member: 2844"]Gorgeous, Michelle. It looks like it is based on a fibula which has been turned into a brooch/pendant.</p><p>The disc shape could be Algerian, but the decoration looks Middle Eastern.</p><p>There could be tiny marks around the edge. Every minute indentation could be a mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>To give you an idea, this was once an Algerian fibula, but it lost it's central pin and was turned into a pendant:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]178249[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 602179, member: 2844"]Gorgeous, Michelle. It looks like it is based on a fibula which has been turned into a brooch/pendant. The disc shape could be Algerian, but the decoration looks Middle Eastern. There could be tiny marks around the edge. Every minute indentation could be a mark. To give you an idea, this was once an Algerian fibula, but it lost it's central pin and was turned into a pendant: [ATTACH=full]178249[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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