Same fashion era but Thoreau is decidedly shaggier. [IMG] I either have read or am completely making this up that Romans shaved down to this...
It's the modeling of the little curves of the cheek, nose & neck that sets the best cutters apart from the merely competent & gives life to the...
I don't snipe, I place a last moment bid manually. Like bluumz, don't bid earlier so as not to escalate bids of others. Think sniping services...
Wondered if it wasn't vintage clothing. What interesting experiences you've had & the travels of the yard of cloth are fascinating. The...
Agree the gent is a cut above; very alive face. I'm not great with historical personages, so he might be 'a name', but cameo portraits were the...
I'm starting this thread as a place to post the outcomes from completed cameo sales that surprise you, either for how much a cameo sold for or for...
Thank you. Always good to get correct terminology. Not sure eBay sellers are any more clear on the difference than I was, since pipe bowls are...
Looks like a Celluloid collar. If so, that would help date it. Fobs I see of this type always strike me as being newer, late...
The last 2 letters look like CI to me. Does that yield anything useful? Cool piece.
What sort of items? My experience is that dealers at high end jewellery shows are a bit disdainful when I tell them a cameo I'm wearing - &...
Few of my most beautiful cameos are signed, & many of my signed ones are not the highest examples of the art, but have special interest on other...
No self-respecting museum curator follows eBay, so Judy may be quite unaware of this unusual Ronca. It makes an interesting little story, which...
This thing has more attributions than the Leonardo Salvator Mundi. What I found interesting was the engraving by E. Pistrucci. The great medal &...
Exactly, it's possible for acetic or formic acid to form: https://cameotimes.com/index.php/reference/byne-s-disease
I already had 1 closeup photo of the Salviati cameo in my files from when it was listed on eBay. From your description and what I see now of...
It says it's an image of Vittoria Colonna [who was a close friend of] M.A. Buonarroti painted it Domenico Campanari produced [printed? published?]...
No, unknown to me. Looks 20th century?
A friend offered it on eBay. Surprisingly, she had never worked out the signature & it certainly wasn't decipherable in the listing photos. I...
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Is there enough of a hollow inside the turtle for it to be a little bottle? More space than for the spoon only?
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