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| - Buyers beware! 2 stars for conceptual design. 1 star for overpriced low quality costume jewelry. For the price, you'd expect pieces that are made from semiprecious metals, or at least sterling. Not even close. I appreciate the design (a simple 20s brass shoe buckle GLUED to a chintzy brass bracelet), but not the fact that the $125 cuff turns my wrist green. What's worse, is that I sent my boyfriend here to pick out an anniversary present for me. For $160 he got an interesting Avon necklace that was unadulterated or manipulated from its original design. I took it back realizing the faux pas, but later found it, in its' original box, on etsy for $17.
I approached Laura about the over priced pieces and further questioned her as to why she would 1)sell the cheapest costume jewelry outrageously priced 2)not sign her work, and 3) why all pieces were glued as opposed to being sautered. Her response was something along the lines of the air ventilation system in the building. At our last encounter, she doesn't even have a studio off site where she can use a blow torch to meld metals together. As a collector, antique jewelry dealer, and sister of a jeweler, I was highly disappointed and embarrassed that I sent my boyfriend into a lion's den of crap.
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