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<p>[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 205948, member: 51"]Can't put a date on this. Any thoughts? Clasp is marked Sterling. Choker length or a bit longer. This is so diminutive in the hand, the first thing you notice. It has hundreds of rhinestones and barely weighs anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>At first glance I thought it was newer. But once in the hand, and looking more closely, it seemed to have some genuine age. (At the same sale I got a Saphiret cross. Stay tuned for a post on that one..)</p><p><br /></p><p>Each rhinestone has a round (looks like sterling) setting that sort of rings around the rhinestone leaving the pointed end of the rhinestone out the back. (See last photo for close up of a single rhinestone. Disregard green reflection on that last photo, was from something else.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Any idea of age or origin? Thanks.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]59622[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]59623[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]59624[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]59625[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]59626[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 205948, member: 51"]Can't put a date on this. Any thoughts? Clasp is marked Sterling. Choker length or a bit longer. This is so diminutive in the hand, the first thing you notice. It has hundreds of rhinestones and barely weighs anything. At first glance I thought it was newer. But once in the hand, and looking more closely, it seemed to have some genuine age. (At the same sale I got a Saphiret cross. Stay tuned for a post on that one..) Each rhinestone has a round (looks like sterling) setting that sort of rings around the rhinestone leaving the pointed end of the rhinestone out the back. (See last photo for close up of a single rhinestone. Disregard green reflection on that last photo, was from something else.) Any idea of age or origin? Thanks. [ATTACH=full]59622[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]59623[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]59624[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]59625[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]59626[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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