EBay's motto is very much caveat emptor. I reassure myself with the presumption that anyone who would even think about paying $50,000 for a cameo...
If I remember correctly, they used to be asking even more for it. I wrote & sent pix of others just like it to make the case that it's...
Keep an eye on them. Being sealed in a wooden display case can promote Byne's disease. Nice though to have a way to display vertically. If I...
I have been putting tags on signed pieces, or putting a slip of paper in the box with the names of carvers, more in the event of someone else...
Sounds as though your collection is very orderly. Is it on display? Do you have an inventory? I did finally make a Word doc with a list of my...
Even though she was told her proposed paper was too off topic for the conference in question, my Italian friend lavished many 'bravissima's on the...
His taste developed along with yours. A man who buys you nice cameos. Where do I get one of those? :)
[ATTACH] This one seems to be a mashup of Madonna della Seggiola, Madonna del Cardellino, & a Madonna yet to be identified, maybe one where she's...
Wonder if your husband knew quite what he was getting. Seller had the name mangled, Tingani or something that way, in the listing title, although...
Hear, hear! The whole positioning of the kithara & the hands holding it on the second cameo is strained & unnatural.
Thank you. I feel greedy accepting it, it's so beautiful.
The green beads are definitely ones I've seen identified as Neiger. Can't vouch for the accuracy but have seen more than once. Tend to agree...
You'll be sorry you did!!!! It might be possible to sort of assign relative values to pieces, but 'true value' doesn't apply to anything in this...
La Madonna della seddia/seggiola, a popular cameo subject. We can have a mini-thread, a bit of lint, on Madonna & Child cameos. The Bridgewater...
My un-secret Santa gift: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The giver has already been told she is very naughty as it is probably out of her own...
Bet the marcasites really flash now. Just noticed that carver actually made the rose leaves look like rose leaves.
Your guy 498 just became the latest pin to the Victorian gentlemen board. I feel I am documenting both 19th century men's fashions in hair & neck...
This is interesting....
If he made that many cameos & signed them all so clearly, it is surprising they do not turn up on the market more frequently. Wonder what 'fancy...
I meant I went back to your source to see if the picture would be better, but it's not what you would call museum quality there either. I'll pin...
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