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vathek Posts: 966 Registered: Jun 99	posted 10-21-2014 12:22 PM Does anyone know how long these have been made and what the earliest possible (more or less) date may be? Thanks. IP: Logged
Kimo Posts: 1627 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 10-21-2014 05:49 PM I don't know though I have seen a number of examples from the 17th century. I would guess they go back much further than that though. IP: Logged
vathek Posts: 966 Registered: Jun 99	posted 10-22-2014 07:25 AM Thanks Kimo, I had no idea they went that far back, most of the examples I could find are late 19 - 20th century. IP: Logged
Kayvee Posts: 204 Registered: Oct 2004	posted 10-22-2014 12:31 PM For more information about history and examples of sterling name brooches, see the article by William P. Hood, Jr. and others in the March/April 2012 issue of Silver Magazine. IP: Logged
chicagosilver Posts: 227 Registered: Aug 2005	posted 10-22-2014 08:55 PM This is a side note but in 1914, Henry Richard Sorensen, former Kalo Shop worker and founder of the Orno Shop in DeKalb, published an interesting article in The Industrial Arts Magazine on making applied monograms. The full text is here: The articleThe article was later incorporated in 1916 into a book called "Hand-Wrought Jewelry." IP: Logged

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