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During world war one and two, the wife's, girlfriends, and mother's wore sweetheat jewelry for there love ones that were in the military fighting the war. Some of these pieces were very fancy made with inset rhinestones, but as metal became scarce, they were made of plastice and even wood.
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Leave it to you to find such a cool niche ! VERY nice!
Savoychina, thanks for the comment. I think maybe i have to much of this sweetheart jewelry more to come.
I think you are right on that looks like trench art to me. If only it could talk and tell the story. Very neat piece.
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simply fantastic! one or two of these alone is stunning, together they seem priceless to me.
Very nice! I have recently started picking up sme of these pieces.
AR8Jason, brianguy, upstatenycollector, Thanks for the nice comments
Thank you roxygirl