And used some Listerine.
And cheval means horse, from which we get chevalier, cavalier & cavalry. :)
Well, at least it suggests cameos are making a comeback. Semiprecious stones look real; pearls, can't tell. Undoubtedly a heck of an expensive...
I think not all parts are made of the same material. The cuff part has to be a plastic of some sort, probably more like Celluloid than Bakelite....
Well, learned (if I can remember it) the word 'scrimshandering'. There is a list of the names on fakes known to the author. There are 2 for...
Oh, as for age. Hard to tell. Such bracelets have been made in India for ages.
That one is definitely from India, think bone pieced together to look like ivory. Less sure about the origin & material of other one, which could...
Parchment paper, maybe. Not actual parchment, which is animal skin. OP's does a convincing job of looking like it was taken from a boring book,...
Ah, I see, sorry. My proposal above I think is very plausible in explaining how they can be so much alike. OP's mention of back feeling like...
'Back' meaning the whiter places that show under the paper? [ATTACH]
Then they both have that stray mark over the left shoulder, which overlapped photo covers on OP's
I'm starting to think they are genuinely old, but maybe reproduced in multiples, the mass production of their day, by artisans with steady hands...
Sometimes it probably is. "Natural material" has become code for ivory, both on eBay & from flea market sellers.
http://www.kahnfineantiques.com/index.cfm?ImgId=3081
I will say I think they were not etched free hand. Maybe from an image projected by mirror, which would also account for the reversal.
The back of that one looks like the material is Celluloid, or similar. More than anything, the description of the back of Josephine keeps me from...
A portrait miniature of Josephine, from Pinterest, so no good info associated. [IMG] The signature at the edge is probably that of the person...
Seller's description of Josephine: You can feel texture in the surface. They're too large for bone, so I find it interesting that the texture...
Welcome, Boxeramba. You're in the right place. Often enough members are able to add information not specifically related to antiques, but drawn...
Always good to have one's opinion seconded by an expert. Jivvy & I (mostly Jivvy) have been researching the cameo cutters whose names we have...
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