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Pendant and hair comb from the Museum of Peranakan jewellery, Melaka, Malaysia
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  • Absolutely gorgeous Pretty! Thanks for posting. Peter
  • wonderful items!  Love the comb, with probably real emeralds!    :) 

  • Yes Eva :) Real emeralds and in gold.

  • wow! thanks Preethi. Love emeralds and it s Beryll sister aquamarine, they are just gorgeous! Unfortunately often the emerald does not turn out well in photos (difficult to capture it s wonderful colour, I do not know why (must be some chemical reaction by the photo....). But anyway, they are gorgeous, and I am a big emerald Lover (and aquamarine too).

  • Great to see. Thanks so much.

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