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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;patd8643, post: 1974160, member: 5195&quot;]Agree on the carnelian.</p><p>KSW, not all pot metal is useless.&nbsp; Some tell a story.&nbsp; My great grandfather escaped from the Austro-Hungarian area during pogroms in the late 1800s.&nbsp; According to tradition, each related family gave him something of value to sell when he got to America.&nbsp; He received a nice collection of garnet jewelry.&nbsp; Some they painted the silver or gold black and some was set in pot metal.&nbsp; This was so the authorities would not confiscate it.</p><p>He did not have to sell it all when he got here and I am lucky enough to have inherited a bit of it.&nbsp; Most of what I have is set in pot metal because I suppose he sold those pieces set in precious metal.&nbsp; I hold it dearly because I know what he went through to get here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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