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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1057030, member: 2844"]Love coral? You talkin' to me?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is good coral. Unfortunately branch coral is generally not worth as much as cut and polished beads, even though it is very pretty. But it sells, and I can see some nice restoration projects for you.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is all old to antique. Yes, red coral turns a salmony colour with age. Some is already salmon, but it is a slightly different salmon from antique red-turned-salmon. I know, I am not making much sense.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Could we see it full length?</p><p><br /></p><p>None of these are dyed.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is a screw barrel clasp, not as old as the slide barrel clasps. Screw barrel clasps were first introduced in the 1890s.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Coral often has some minute bits and pieces of coral polyps in the holes anyway, so when you buy coral, you often get tiny corpses of long dead sea creatures for free (yay).<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1057030, member: 2844"]Love coral? You talkin' to me?:confused: It is good coral. Unfortunately branch coral is generally not worth as much as cut and polished beads, even though it is very pretty. But it sells, and I can see some nice restoration projects for you.:) It is all old to antique. Yes, red coral turns a salmony colour with age. Some is already salmon, but it is a slightly different salmon from antique red-turned-salmon. I know, I am not making much sense.:rolleyes: Could we see it full length? None of these are dyed.:happy: It is a screw barrel clasp, not as old as the slide barrel clasps. Screw barrel clasps were first introduced in the 1890s. :hilarious: Coral often has some minute bits and pieces of coral polyps in the holes anyway, so when you buy coral, you often get tiny corpses of long dead sea creatures for free (yay).:D[/QUOTE]
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