Featured CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer

Oops.

 

Oops galore.

 

Been there, seen that, have the book!

 

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. Book seems to be the source, presumably a typo, of the error I have seen repeated elsewhere that Michelini exhibited in Paris in 1885. It was 1855, according to Forrer, which makes more sense, as M moved to Paris c. 1830.

 

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 couple, fence and house. I was shocked at how cheap the sticker price was. Then he took off a 1/3 of that price. I had to make sure it was actually carved and not plastic because he was giving it away.

Cameos get no respect from the average jewelry collector. Even this is a little work of art.

 

"Alexandra the Great"

It's Omphale, but hey, they tried.

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/...aign=auction-alert&utm_content=lot-image-link

 

If I saw that at the right price, I'd snatch it up. The strange part is, the pin was a replacement. That looked mighty modern for 19th century.

 

She could come live with me any time. The clasp has been replaced. Original was probably just a C-clasp, albeit, judging from the rest of the construction, probably quite a sturdy one. Still, too nice a piece to have drop off while wearing.

 

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/...aign=auction-alert&utm_content=lot-image-link

oval shell cameo carved to depict Lady Liberty



Guess I got it all wrong:

https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/hebe-and-eagle

 

Poor old Zeus, getting mistaken for a garden-variety eagle. Where's a Greek god to go for some respect these days?

 

This cameo has flown into my collection. I couldn't resist.

 

Does anyone in this group live in Scotland? I'll be there for a couple months starting May 14, if anyone is interested in meeting up with another cameo geek.

 

More show and tell. My mom was gifted this from my paternal grandmother. My grandmother brought it from Germany when she and her family came to the US after WWII. My mom just gave it to me. It is Anne of Austria, queen consort of King Louis XIII. I had never seen it before she pulled it out of a drawer.

 

Sorry everyone I think i broke a rule by making a similar post so I have edited this now to change it, Thank you.

 

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/s...me-information-if-anyone-knows-about-i.89931/

Hello @Shaun360
u already have a thread started about this ring.
It's not a Cameo , and this thread is exclusively for Cameos.

Bronwen was tagged on your thread , so eventually if she has any thoughts on your ring , she'll post there , as opposed to you needing to search her out here.,

 

Okay thank you for that, but if the ring is not classed as a cameo what would it be classed as?

 

Jewelry....... but you can leave it were it is.... Antiques is a good catch all !

 

Another one from the backlog of cameos to show. Recently purchased from eBay. I bought another cameo (which I will show) from this seller at a reasonable price but a few days later he jacked his prices. I contacted him and he sold this cameo for the original price. In person it is pristine and beautidully carved. I like the little pin cover so the extended pin stem doesn't poke. It is signed, but I am not familiar with the signature. Idar-Oberstein in origin, I think.

 

It just keeps attention & responses from getting scattered when an item is presented in a single place. I have responded to you in your own thread, where you got great guidance from some of our other cameo-holics.

 

Can't believe mom kept this hidden from you until recently, but way cool. May I put her on my Pinterest board for ivory portraits? There must be a portrait somewhere this is based on, maybe one made to show the Bourbons when a match was being considered? She looks very young, & in non-French garb. How big is it?