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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 2888015, member: 2844"]It is gorgeous, Barn, you didn't say if it is silver? It is missing a dangle, which isn't unusual, so no real problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like those are genuine garnets and real pearls, so I would guess silver and certainly AH in style. There is no real filigree, btw, just ropetwist wire around the bezels. The back and the bezels look die-stamped.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it was made in Bohemia post-1918, it is Czech, just not Czech costume. If it was made in Bohemia before 1918, it is AH. If it was made in another AH region before 1918, it is also AH. And after 1918, it is from another former AH region, now independent or part of another country.</p><p>Looking at the style, I would guess 1890s Bohemia or Slovakia. So AH, no matter what the material is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 2888015, member: 2844"]It is gorgeous, Barn, you didn't say if it is silver? It is missing a dangle, which isn't unusual, so no real problem. It looks like those are genuine garnets and real pearls, so I would guess silver and certainly AH in style. There is no real filigree, btw, just ropetwist wire around the bezels. The back and the bezels look die-stamped. If it was made in Bohemia post-1918, it is Czech, just not Czech costume. If it was made in Bohemia before 1918, it is AH. If it was made in another AH region before 1918, it is also AH. And after 1918, it is from another former AH region, now independent or part of another country. Looking at the style, I would guess 1890s Bohemia or Slovakia. So AH, no matter what the material is.[/QUOTE]
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