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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RachelW, post: 9780330, member: 15376&quot;]<p style="text-align: center">The season has been dissappointing so far to say the least, coming home with one murano necklace one week and a silver and (small) moonstone ring another, but that&#039;s been it. This year its full of the dealers, more so than other years, though I seem to remember they always were ready to come out in early spring when the normal people aren&#039;t. Anyway, I found a stall that had the kind of vide grenier prices we used to get years ago before old got expensive. I paid a whopping 50c each for these three.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]483479[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">I picked up the little venetian (?) boy because I thought it was sweet, vintage costume with a lot of paint coming off, but I actually prefer it that way.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]483480[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">This was the first thing I picked up at the stall, nacre and probably silver. Unmarked. Judging by the pin length and hinge...circa 3rd Quarter 19th?</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]483481[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[USER=2844]@Any Jewelry[/USER] How to Be a Jewelry Dectective led to this purchase! I tucked away the bit about Duette brooches for future reference and it paid off today. It&#039;s got all its stones intact and undamaged (minus a couple discolored), the pin is missing but the rest of the hardware is there so no biggie to replace it.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">I&#039;m curious about this though: Most duettes online have the clips already attached, while mine does not. My guess is that the clips were separate and slid into place, and someone&#039;s left them in a drawer sometime in the last 100 years. But its an unusual design..</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]483482[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]483483[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]483484[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Makes me feel a bit better! Vide greniers have been great for porcelain and kitchenware for me (got an enamel casserole pot for 5 euros in great condition the other week, it was his grandmothers), but jewelry has been tiny bits of silver for 10 euros or retro costume for 15 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie78" alt=":rage:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">TYFL!</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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