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<p>[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 7621288, member: 78949"]<font size="5">Thank you, Figtree3, I attach the clasp from the side</font></p><p><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]423503[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Thank you, KSW, to me it also looked somehow unusual. I can't formulate why and besides I have little experience with clasps in </font><font size="4">particular</font><font size="5"> and in general with jewelry. </font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Thank you, Any! I have read somewhere in Internet that this type of clasp (or at least similar to it) was used as an early and more simple safe type, in the beginning of 20th c. but Internet is not to be trusted. In you I trust <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Here the safest bet is Czech <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> There is so much Czech jewelry around, I still remember the Czechoslovakian Culture Centre where they sold Jablonex jewelry and Bohemian crystal vases. Not cheap for the </font><font size="4">standard</font><font size="5"> though. Or German if before WWII. And USSR after that, of course. Here it would be extremely unusual to find a Victorian item. Not impossible, but with extremely low probability. </font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Unless it is some local artisan make but given the nice looks I doubt it.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 7621288, member: 78949"][SIZE=5]Thank you, Figtree3, I attach the clasp from the side [ATTACH=full]423503[/ATTACH] Thank you, KSW, to me it also looked somehow unusual. I can't formulate why and besides I have little experience with clasps in [/SIZE][SIZE=4]particular[/SIZE][SIZE=5] and in general with jewelry. Thank you, Any! I have read somewhere in Internet that this type of clasp (or at least similar to it) was used as an early and more simple safe type, in the beginning of 20th c. but Internet is not to be trusted. In you I trust :happy: Here the safest bet is Czech :joyful: There is so much Czech jewelry around, I still remember the Czechoslovakian Culture Centre where they sold Jablonex jewelry and Bohemian crystal vases. Not cheap for the [/SIZE][SIZE=4]standard[/SIZE][SIZE=5] though. Or German if before WWII. And USSR after that, of course. Here it would be extremely unusual to find a Victorian item. Not impossible, but with extremely low probability. Unless it is some local artisan make but given the nice looks I doubt it.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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