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Old 09-20-2009, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by DartmouthPanhel View Post
I'm bidding on it, so I spent some time looking closely at the setting. I think that this was originally a crown pearl badge with 20 pearls (which they stopped making a while back) and it lost a pearl. Or it's possible that they used to make 19 pearl badges as well as 20, but it's unlikely.
Oh, I think you're right! If you look at the top, it looks like a piece is broken off, where the 20th pearl would be. Still, an amazing find!
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