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Note from owner: "2” long gold electro-plated dangling earrings from Detroit Art Institute, bought at time of ABA Convention. Replicas of “Ur Earrings, from the time of Abraham, 1800-1600 B.C.” Original is in the collection of Mrs. Paul Leton, where husband wrote about them in his archeology look, The Bible was My Treasure Map: “most important heavy gold ovoid earring; decorated with exceptionally fine granular work in regular seven by seven designs: other granules also applied with mathematical regularity; …found in small Arab village near biblical Hebron, Palestine, and dates from early Sumerian Period.” Authorized copyrighted reproduction, gold-electro-plated, by Alva Museum Replicas, Inc. New York, N.Y."