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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 912477, member: 5833&quot;]Since my knowledge of geography is dismal, had to spend some time looking at maps to have any thoughts about this.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not meant to be representative of Germany as a whole.&nbsp; Since S. Valelly actually had her name put on the back, one letter per panel, have to think this collection of locations had particular meaning to her.&nbsp; One panel is not a city, Westfalen, but 2 of the cities are in Westfalen.&nbsp; When you plot them all out, they make an arc running from the west up around the north, ending in Berlin.&nbsp; Looks to me like the blank bracelet was pre-made &amp; then the customer chose the little enamel shields to be glued in for a customized memento.&nbsp; Perhaps Valelly had to add in Westfalen in order to complete her 8.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have to go with pre-war 1930s for it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This <i>is</i> tourist jewellery &amp; probably has little to do with German jewellery history &amp; styles.&nbsp; Wouldn&#039;t surprise me if you couldn&#039;t buy the same bracelet with an appropriate choice of shields if you were in France during the same period.&nbsp; If GermanGirl actually had a collection of different German souvenir bracelets of different types &amp; ages, she might be some help.&nbsp; What she has is a single modern bracelet with German shield charms &amp; the eyes of someone who is looking to sell same to others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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