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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 197038, member: 2844&quot;]Thanks Susan, for your input and editing the pictures, they&#039;re a lot clearer now. </p><p>Interesting point about Chinese marks. There are Kyrgyz people in the west of China, closely related to the Kazakh, but there jewelry styles are very different, more like Uzbek jewelry. </p><p>Both Kazakh and Kyrgyz people traditionally use adaptations of Arabic script, but also use Cyrillic and Chinese scripts, depending on their respective (former) dominant nations. And there is of course Figtree&#039;s comment about the use of the Roman alphabet in Russia/USSR.</p><p>It is still a mystery, but if we&#039;re romantic we could think of a wandering Kazakh silversmith who ended up in western China.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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