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The New York Times has an article in today's Magazine on the Parisian jeweler Auclert, who I've mentioned before. An interesting detail from the article is that he tries quite carefully to not make permanent changes to the antique pieces he incorporates.

The man himself, Marc Auclert
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Pink gold and oxidized silver ring. The granulated gold element is probably Etruscan, they don't bother to mentionGold bracelet. The central element is a bronze-age bull's head from China
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Early 19th Century black-glass cameos in a bracelet-in-process
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