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  1. mirana liked Snowman Cometh's post in the thread CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer.

    Picked up this nice large cameo at an antique market today. The details aren't great. There's no faces. But, you can tell it's a tree, a...

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  2. mirana liked Marote's post in the thread Pope Signature ?.

    :bag: The date in the book also has Roman numerals... I thought it was an 8, but it's an X for October :facepalm:

    Apr 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
  3. mirana replied to the thread NEWS: Record prices are triggering a gold rush of customers looking to melt old jewelry for cash.

    The way my mom got angry when I told her her diamonds were worth very little on the second hand market...! :muted: She was so worried...

    Apr 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
  4. mirana liked Bronwen's post in the thread CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer.

    I have the book too, but no one has transferred the info from the text to the illustrations, so you have to keep looking back & forth....

    Apr 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
  5. mirana replied to the thread Pope Signature ?.

    Yeah, I was going to say...many of these type of books have printed or auto-penned signatures so one should always look up other offerings.

    Apr 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
  6. mirana liked 2manybooks's post in the thread Pope Signature ?.

    There is a good chance that the signature is printed into the book, not hand signed by the Pope. Here is another copy, with the...

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