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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 1841773, member: 5833&quot;]Beautiful beads, KSW.&nbsp; Clasp certainly looks like an early version of the type, but I don&#039;t know when they were introduced.&nbsp; Early safety clasps for brooches were itty bitty things &amp;, in my experience, not up to securing larger pieces.&nbsp; I&#039;ve always wondered if it was some unsuccessful attempt to minimize &amp; hide the findings (hinges were small too).&nbsp; This strikes me as the same thing, an effort to have as little clasp as possible relative to the beads, but not sure I would trust it to hold them.&nbsp; Would think the strand is fairly heavy?&nbsp; Gorgeous blues though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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