Featured CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer

outstanding cameo...... think I'll go have a flagon of wine !!

 

I think she's a real beauty!

 

I was looking for something else on the British Museum website and did a curiosity google.

Cameo addicts' rabbit hold, for sure. I found this hardstone one first.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1890-0901-15

 

this cameo is available locally. I am not sure if it any good. It seems too simple and crudely carved? Huge neck, long nose. Appears to be signed on the back? The best photo I could do as not in my possession.

 

She doesn't sing to me at all. The poor girl needs a nose job.

 

This is so much nicer in person than it is in this photo. It's in a 12k bezel. Someone's family member felt it was worth nothing and gave it to a thrift shop. My wife bought last week a beautiful micro mosaic pin that I'd bet came from the same household.

 

the things people toss............

 

Tell them to toss them to me! (if its not a cameo; then Brownwen and Pepperanna will go up for the interception)

 

I understand rich people who have so much they just don't care about anything. But, we live in PA, and most everyone looks like they're just getting by.

My issue is, I never toss anything.

My wife was a textile designer. The dress designer was mega rich. When they left one company to go to another, the designer threw away a 19th century portrait locket and an 18k compact. My wife was the last person to leave and picked them out of the trash. When they got to the new place, she showed them to the woman who said "Keep them. I threw them away." This woman once had a hair appointment and her 10 carat diamond tennis bracelet fell off in the design studio. My wife found it and called the hair salon to tell her she found it. "Just leave it on my desk. I didn't even notice it was gone." Money can buy you anything. It also makes you appreciate things a lot less.

 

Hope you didn't buy this; it has absolutely nothing to recommend it. Not just crudely cut but also in poor condition & no older than the 1950s. I could not tell whether or not the various marks on the back add up to a signature. Even a signature, especially if cutter is unknown, can't redeem this one.

 

What she said.........!!!