I used to be pretty good at predicting whether an eBay cameo would sell & for how much. Not any more. If I understood better, my predictive...
Could be done by grinding, like any intaglio.
It has been my perception for a while now, based on auction results, asked & achieved, that cameos & intaglios are in a period of renewed...
Took a bit of a flyer in bidding on this group, but yesterday's mail proved it justified. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Guide books for Rome in...
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Reasonably sure that is not Joan, who was a village girl until she took up the military life. Not sure who cutter had in mind. St. Catherine of...
I was going to propose Francis & Castillo seems like a good fit too, to my eye.
What AJ said. In both cases I suspect we're looking at 2 different types of plastic. Tough right now to set a fixed price on any cameo of any...
The cameo itself may be Celluloid or similar & the frame around it Bakelite or another hard plastic. Where did you apply the cleanser that the...
Uhh...would that be DETROIT MICH? Or just some other miscellaneous Detroit? Love it. Looks like small artillery but brings back memories of hot...
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Could be that the wax paper original stuck to the first bit, which may not always have needed water to adhere. My first thought is a little...
It's not a bail because it is at the bottom. How can something round have a top & bottom? Because the vast majority of brooches are made for the...
What's on the ribbon to the left of 1908? Think I see |ART?
I thought what Wiki had to say was interesting, that it is a very old tale, & not one where the moral has always been about the superiority of...
OTTOMH: Beatrix Potter?
You're getting warm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper I'm thinking anniversary gift: one of them a musician; the other...
A frog he would a-wooing go?
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