Vintage Sterling Jewelry
So siamsilver why don't identify who
you are in real life instead of hiding out behind your free Yahoo account and show us your work and let us decide if you're worthy of our time and energy.
Any help?
S/he's not. A quick search via groups.google.com reveals that siamsilver
is a reseller of "vintage sterling silver" jewelry evidently purchased
in southeast Asia, and not, from any evidence I can find, an artisan at
all. (Follow the links to his/her yahoo auction and you'll see what I mean.)
I mostly lurk here, because I'm not (yet) trying to make a living from
my craft, but I value the newsgroup precisely *because* its regulars are
vigilant about keeping out the hucksters. It's one of the few Usenet
groups where the signal outpaces the noise, and I can actually learn
things. If I want to by tacky jewelry - and hey, sometimes I *do* -