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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1716872, member: 2844&quot;]Not such a strange notion, blooey, you do realize Odessa is actually in Ukraine?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Not that all jewellery in Ukraine was necessarily made in Ukraine of course. You may think it is very far from Kiev, that is relative of course, some people think 10k is far away. To the Ukrainians of Odessa it is home, in Ukraine.</p><p>It is the main Ukrainian port on the Black Sea, Russian revolution, featured in the Eisenstein movie, etc, etc.</p><p>Also the port where many of the gemstones from the Caucasus entered Ukraine, one of the reasons why there are so many gold- and silversmiths in Odessa.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if the K mark on flipper&#039;s ring is Odessa, I just said it is a possibility, since it was up to 1958, just like the Moscow mark on my Soviet era ring was the same as the pre-1958 mark.</p><p>And since Odessa is one of the main cities of Ukraine.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Odessa Ukraine, that is, not Odessa Texas.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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