Looks more like jasper, a catch-all term for opaque microcrystalline quartz. That very round pit on the back is odd. Does it go far in?
Not Robert Walpole: [IMG]
OK, everybody. Opinions wanted. This is not a test, I don't know the right answer either. Are these 2 cameo portraits of the same person? If...
Guess you're repaying me for putting up all this confusing stuff. Now I'm the one who's confused. Huh?
Suggestive, but far from conclusive. This was sold as: A Roman basalt cameo circa 1st - 2nd century AD relief carved with the bust of a maiden,...
[ATTACH] I think it says à Paris. Pardonnez moi! See now this was already said.
Since Richardson is going to discharge the debts, could be that Lamant Juliot died. Can I have the link, if you can find it again? I always want...
Lead seal may have been put on by customs somewhere.
My sense is that they are stone, although am more certain of what they are not than of what they are. Have been turned into a necklace in the...
This has to have gone on, but of course is another facet of the trade that is not much officially acknowledged. Giovanna Di Rosa writes about it...
Or he revived the form of the name being used in 1840 by the inventive nacrier. I do have to think it is all the same family.
We've turned up so much great stuff here, all of it unexplored anywhere else in the literature as far as I know, I don't want to lose track of it....
It means I hoped the caduceus on the side was some indication of maker & not just ornamentation. When Google turned up a French clockmaker who...
I believe I have taken that into account: Well, if I spend time/effort continuing to research when info provided is inadequate to make any...
Was hoping this was a clue: [IMG] and briefly got excited over this: R & C (Biographical details) R & C (manufacturer/factory;...
I'm not cutting him loose. I just think we are spinning our wheels unless more info is provided & I sensed impatience with our inability to...
Adding in the second L, it would seem that the nacrier was a Monsieur Lamant-Julliot, & registered the invention of some kind of waxy polish in...
This Google result is tantalizing but inaccessible: Individu : JULIOT - Recherche bibliothèque - Geneanet...
Was reviewing this thread & decided to squander a bit of time looking into this. I made an error & typed Juliot instead of Julliot & got a...
I think OP is using 'plastic' in the way anund's definitions describe it. Better English word might be 'casting'. I also think OP has given up...
Separate names with a comma.
