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Traditional methods of diamond identification:-
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:07:47 -0700, William Black wrote:
snippage But it's all the bloody same... Bloody sameness? In what way? Indian gold jewellery being sold today is based on a set of standard designs that don't seem to have changed significantly in at least the past couple of hundred years. The pictures of the lady Ganesh posted links to a couple of weeks ago could have been wearing (very expensive) jewellery made last week rather than over 100 years ago. Gold jewellery is routinely inherited and worn and doesn't look any different in style when worn with new stuff. All that varies is the engraving I guess our criteria for "sameness" are vastly different. http://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Je.../dp/050028749X What I call the same is the boring little wedding rings worn by people in the West. |
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Traditional methods of diamond identification:-
polymer wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:07:47 -0700, William Black wrote: snippage But it's all the bloody same... Bloody sameness? In what way? Indian gold jewellery being sold today is based on a set of standard designs that don't seem to have changed significantly in at least the past couple of hundred years. The pictures of the lady Ganesh posted links to a couple of weeks ago could have been wearing (very expensive) jewellery made last week rather than over 100 years ago. Gold jewellery is routinely inherited and worn and doesn't look any different in style when worn with new stuff. All that varies is the engraving I guess our criteria for "sameness" are vastly different. http://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Je.../dp/050028749X What I call the same is the boring little wedding rings worn by people in the West. I think you'll find that this is a piece of jewellery on the cover of a book that devotes about 150 pages to describing the traditions of Indian jewellery design... After that it talks about jewellery as bullion and manufacturing techniques. I do have to add that I had to have the very plain 'D' section court rings that my wife and I wear as weddings rings specially made in India as they're almost unheard of there. -- William Black "Any number under six" The answer given by Englishman Richard Peeke when asked by the Duke of Medina Sidonia how many Spanish sword and buckler men he could beat single handed with a quarterstaff. |
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Because the political system has always been a touch unstable people
want portable wealth and jewellery is one way of having that without suspicion that you've got a sack of gold bars under the bed. |
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