Featured CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer

Sadly I don’t exactly remember. Things don’t stick these days( It may have been £2-3K).

 

Yes, it may have been completely encased in gold on the reverse, I was a bit miffed he didn't show the back.

 

I'd have been too.

 

Me too. Not sure this qualifies as one, but I like the name of one tool commonly used for hand engraving shell: scorper.

 

I sure wouldn't turn that away. Do you recall if they estimated the age? That's another thing seeing the back could have helped with.

It's someone's very personal composition. While conventional elements are there, the wing is lower on the head than usual, & the snake coming up around it is very distinctive.

 

There's that. And this is box #1? I just stumbled into it. Have not seen the like before, not as something for sale to whomever. What store these days is featuring cameos?

 

In trying to see if I could find this one, got led to this one:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0...falls for an exquisitely crafted cameo brooch.

An incredible commesso of Psyche:

 

stellar !

 

Every time I hear someone in England say, "Oh, I just saw it in a shop and liked it," it gives me even more reason for wishing I lived there, or anywhere the cameo hunting (& metal detecting) is good.

 

yah well...this one is a ' cut above ' ........

pardon the pun....

 

This looks to me suspiciously like a Charles Schmoll S:



If so, one of the biggest, best pieces I have seen from him:



Afraid some of the "lovely white misty magical swirling haze around her" looks like Byne's, but that can be dealt with.

Item # 326058105890 at our favorite marketplace.

 

Unforgivable, that's what you are, unforgivable...

 

Sorry I missed a lot of the dialogue when trying to get my iPad ready.
I also thought the snake was unusual.

 

Cutters can have a lot of fun with the snakes:

 

I think I would faint dead away of I saw something like that in a shop!!!!!!!!

 

Wondering what happens if an item is sent for authentication & the description is wrong, the piece is better in some way, e.g., a cameo described as shell but that is really hardstone. Would seller have the right to cancel the sale? (And of course would authenticator know the difference?)

 

When you say better........ do you just mean , more expensive..?
14 k turns out to be 18k........ no reason to turn it down ...
but if you needed a Medusa shell cameo to complete your collection , a hardstone may not fit the bill even if it had a higher value...

See where I'm going with this ?
( I'm conceding that the authentication is correct..)

 

Any feature that, if the seller had understood correctly, would have led them to set & insist on a higher price. Right now, when gold is being sold by the molecule, you would put a higher price on 18K than you would on the same piece in 14K, a higher price for coral than for conch shell, more for a signed piece than an unsigned one. "Better" as the market understands it, not taking into account any personal preferences of the buyer. I have occasionally paid silly money for a cameo because it meant something to me & my collection, but that is not something an authenticator could factor in.

 

I'm talking seller's remorse here.

 

well, if it's not what the seller said it was...... then I'd think the ball is 1st , in the buyers court.......