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<p>[QUOTE="Dyrektoressa, post: 11724413, member: 25922"]Hi All!</p><p>I hope I am not the only person obsessed with before and afters, and since I have a fab story, I decided to show it off.</p><p>Some time ago, I posted here a picture of the earrings I was thinking about buying from an online seller. The suggestion was that they were dirty-af German earrings from approximately the 1900s. They were about £30, so I decided to give them a go.</p><p>They arrived, and I started cleaning them — two days of work — and… well… the hallmark still remains a mystery to me. But now I’m starting to wonder whether they might actually be gold (or maybe brass), and what the stone might be… or just green paste. I think paste, though.</p><p>I must say that I have never achieved such a transformation...</p><p>First photo is the photo for the seller.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]547757[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]547758[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]547760[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]547759[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]547761[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]547762[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]547763[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Dyrektoressa, post: 11724413, member: 25922"]Hi All! I hope I am not the only person obsessed with before and afters, and since I have a fab story, I decided to show it off. Some time ago, I posted here a picture of the earrings I was thinking about buying from an online seller. The suggestion was that they were dirty-af German earrings from approximately the 1900s. They were about £30, so I decided to give them a go. They arrived, and I started cleaning them — two days of work — and… well… the hallmark still remains a mystery to me. But now I’m starting to wonder whether they might actually be gold (or maybe brass), and what the stone might be… or just green paste. I think paste, though. I must say that I have never achieved such a transformation... First photo is the photo for the seller. [ATTACH=full]547757[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]547758[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]547760[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]547759[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]547761[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]547762[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]547763[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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