Not citrine, which is yellow-orange. Hard to tell about these because they are strung on red thread, which is making them look more red than they...
Not really. Can you tell whether she has been glued or the glass fused to glass? Can you catch a fingernail at the line where the 2 colors meet?...
You have characterized her very well. She is glass, assembled from 2 pieces. Those fissures in the surface strike me as being like what happens...
Yes, to me too, he wants an audience. I'm just mulling the presentation of this letter as evidence that cameo we were investigating is the cameo...
Think it's AVL for Avril, April. One more line & you'd have the mark of the Deathly Hallows!
As a Yank, the intricacies of royal protocol never cease to amaze, but does not sound like anything the Prince was expecting. And it seems to be...
Suspect your black sand is the remains of a foam rubber type material.
Usually signals Cleopatra.
Maybe we need to establish a category for cameos that qualify as primitive, or naif, or fauve or something.
A little bit sorry - but only a very little bit - that the thread on the cameo of Victoria got shut down. Would have added this excerpt from...
Yes, having the whole gang is unusual. The cutter had the sense to know that s/he (shell cameo cutting was promoted as a suitable hobby for well...
They look to me like a mix of spherical pearls & ones that are more baroque (any shape that's not a sphere). They are neither uniform nor...
Around here we call it expertise. I'm getting the feeling you just want validation of the assessment you have already made, no questions asked.
Is this solid or hollow? Could we get a clear closeup of the bottom of the feet?
If he had a watch & chain, he might have had a fob. Could the elephant have belonged to his father, uncle, etc.? As has already been suggested,...
Tommaso. 2 Ms & 1 S, not the other way around.
It's not the sizing so much as the lighting & the extraneous stuff around her. Try for some better pix of the whole piece when you're trying to...
I asked about signs of a beard with the thought that pix may be of the same boy at different ages.
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