Lace making.
How about an amphiptere (also amphithere & other variants) a creature new to me. These would have to be amphiptere-ess-es. This strikes me as a...
!!!! Someone took a really good impression of the original. What were the chances of your seeing both?!
Komo is right. Very often faint marks difficult to see with the unaided, or even aided, eye show up when photographed in the right light at the...
I imagine you know this is Raphael's Madonna della Sedia/Seggiola. She makes for a beautiful cameo, as do some others of his. This one is known...
Agree, bone, not ivory. The implements look to me like they're for something more delicate than ordinary sewing. Tatting, perhaps? I see...
Yep, and I consider French glass cameos to be far more worth having than many a hacked out shell cameo.
How I had my Come To Cameos moment: Shopping on-line for antiques/collectibles
Is your JH what I'm reading as HG or HC?
They may be a marriage. Look at the rings on the earring findings that the chains attach to. They've been worked over.
When did snakes start having teeth?
Since you've become enamored of MOP boxes (you might like card cases too), I'll take the marquetry one & won't ask questions about its age. :D
I have been pondering these & the question of age. Have gone back & forth in my mind, finally feeling they are more likely to be c. 1950s.
All 3 of these are resin: https://www.ebay.com/itm/395583911870
I'd call her a generic Flora.
If you see a cameo of some size that has the coloration of helmet shell but is thick with a flat back, you're almost always looking at resin. The...
Do you think the 'RG' on the frame of Ms. Ponytail indicates rolled gold? Or something in Italian?
I've seen this one described as sisters.
What do the holes on the helmet shell ponytail girl give away? Looks like someone got happy with a Dremel tool. The resin cameo with the jugate...
"The other" is molded resin. Ponytail girl is 50s or later, probably set in Italy, with that rather anachronistic hinge. Clasp is more accurate...
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