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 Slovakia Marriage Fashion 2015 Gold Jewellery Necklace Set. 

By Aamir Mannan.

After 1760 the production of fake jewellery spread to London and to Birmingham.  Steel which was produced easily during the industrial revolution was used for settings for marcasite and jasper ware cameos.  Glass and Wedgwood porcelain paste cameos were made in English factories and were very popular too.

Ornate shoe buckles of paste, steel and tin were part of fashionable dress.  A similar fad at this time were elaborate paste jewelled buttons, fashionable in British society.  As well as fake jewellery gaining popularity, semi precious jewels such as uncut garnets became usual as part of less formal day dress.

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