You're all doing just fine without me, but of course I'll put in my tuppence. [IMG] Really great find, @bluumz Victoria, about as she looked in...
As part of that you can arrange to receive e-mail alerts when auctions are coming up with items in your particular area(s) of interest. As has...
Could this relate to China's Chang'e lunar program & the Rabbit in the Moon?
I don't know the first thing about it, other than I have not previously seen the like, but those beads look like antler to me?
Helmet shell, approx. 1950s, probably 800 silver, does not appear to have condition issues. After that, it's a matter of whether you like it...
It definitely is glass.
Except the first letter looks like L, not B or C, A. __ellini.
Kamee.
Could it be parian ware?
I'm still playing, but think you've blown everyone else off the court. It is plausible & lack of a dot is not a problem. Still left with the...
Maybe to keep a house key attached to a kid?
Looking at her again, I see how the sweeping lines on the background echo the draping folds of her robe. Cutter has framed her in them. I...
The best advice I can give anyone newly interested in cameos is basically what scouts has said I'd say: try to resist all the 'pretty lady'...
I remember little bags of 5 cats eye marbles & little puzzles of the bar puzzle type that you had to position just so to get the 2 metal pieces...
Not really. They only meant you'd have to ask way more for a mediocre modern cameo in a plain silver frame than anyone would be willing to pay....
That's a question for someone who knows about diamonds, but 4 very small ones still have to be worth something. Can imagine a jeweller keeping...
It is. Sorry @bluumz There are carved amethysts, but more that are identified as that than really are. This would be an extremely expensive gem...
You were doing very well. i will add that #3 probably cracked when the diamonds were prised out.
It's turning into Cameo Week on antiquers.com! Let's see. [IMG] A pretty bar brooch with a not very good conch shell cameo. Probably 'reads'...
The cameo is Italian, just not made in the heyday of the fashion, before every Tommaso, Luigi & Filippo was hacking them out in a shed to meet...
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