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[quote user="Faust"]Seventh, antique jewelry is an esoteric market - who really knows what goes on there! It's like antique furniture. I would definitely suggest picking up a book on it before you go hunting.
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And remember, jewellers have been 'faking' stones for hundreds of years (special heating treatments to change colour, etc.). Very risk business to invest in, as beautiful as it may be.
Can't remember where I read on this forum about this particular interesting jewelry designer but I found a shop in Antwerp carrying a few of his pieces.
Unfortunately it was a sunday so I wasn't able to go inside.
let us raise a toast to ancient cotton, rotten voile, gloomy silk, slick carf, decayed goat, inflamed ram, sooty nelton, stifling silk, lazy sheep, bone-dry broad & skinny baffalo.
I dunno... a lot of the pieces just look cheap to me. Considering he probably does the wax casting method where you carve the ring body out of wax and then build a mold with it, a lot of these look like a middle school art project. If it wasn't for the precious metals... these would be pretty much junk.
The more refined pieces he does I like, but I don't think it takes "talent" or creativity to use diamonds and gold and make them look broke-ass you know?
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