[Jewelry making - Article 00076] - Re: [Orchid] Trip to Greece

[kevdan]

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    I have been to Greece, I have never seen so many jewelery shops in
    one place in all my life. Everything is 22k and is handmade. Mostly
    greek and etruscan design and lots of granulation. The jewelery
    stores are side by side in Athens mostly catering to tourists. The
    prices are quite reasonable most things are sold by the gram. I
    spoke with some actual bench jewelers and hung around their shop for
    a few hours one day while I was there, most were from Turkey Albania
    and Armenia they were very skilled at the style of work they did. A
    good shop to visit would be the Alias Luanis shop he is one of the
    most famous greek jewelers. The shops are very impresive I saw gold
    plates, cups and even a full sized gold punch bowl with cups and
    laddle all in 22k gold, all hand raised and engraved. Athens is real
    dirty the air is really bad during the summer my wife passed out
    from carbon monoxide when we were in the city and I was feeling real
    woozy. Go out to the islands they are alot nicer and less expensive. 

sincerely Kevin Potter


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