Wow, very nice indeed. I'd like to see it when it's clean.
Despite my quarrels with its identification of cameo subjects, the book Cameos Old & New is a source for info on contemporary cameo production....
A Reliquia seems to be Portuguese. If it's a nod to the novel, suggests production of modern fakes.
The mark I see most commonly on pieces like this is '800', when the piece has been mounted in Italy. With its bifurcated prongs & the safety...
The third one is Heracles & Omphale in what is called a jugate composition. It's a favorite of mine. The original is by Brown & is in the...
I thought this was our cameo thread?
Do you not have a testing stone? You shouldn't be applying acid directly on the piece. The mark looks to me like something incidental to the...
Google still has a thing or 2 to learn. The metal is probably silver, but may be 800 rather than 925 in fineness. The cameo is cut in helmet...
I would say late 19th century. The figure is Psyche: https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/psyche
The Raphael is one of my Mouhé pieces. The other is a grab from eBay. I recall the seller saying something like they found her very beautiful,...
Hat-Hair gives me a Raphael vibe: [ATTACH] I have just the girl for him. (No, not mine.) [ATTACH]
Judging from the pieces in the new accumulation (the theft of the others must have been like a knife in the heart!) you have not fallen into this...
Since it becomes plastic when hated, I see no reason you could not make an impression in it with a hot brand. It may be the clasp design that is...
Think Russian would be written in Cyrillic letters. This is some other Eastern European language.
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Vice Admiral Howe; King Charles V, signed by Brown (Charles or William), possibly part of a series of the kings of France; Pope Urban VII; Roman...
All the cats that would have a grand time playing with it.
Bone, not ivory.
All that bamboo definitely says Chinese to me.
I have some brass bracelets made in a similar way that I bought from the artisan at a crafts show, probably late 80s.
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