Hard to say with certainty, although hinge precludes its being super old. Think OBB's estimate is as close as any. Quality of both carving &...
Whoa! I'm definitely living in the wrong jewellery age. That is one scary Medusa. The swan right below could use a Leda. I go to the show to...
Since I want to make sure I have it right on the web site, checked into this. Quick Googling seems to indicate that 'tufo' is a word only in...
Think the main thing that gets found is dealers finding me annoying if I tell them their great big coral cameo with the great big price is really...
To my eye, they look like the same model, although the one you found still has eyelashes: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Agree, fluorite. Careful, it fractures easily, sometimes spontaneously.
I don't 'do' FB & did not realize, until seeing it mentioned here now & then, that there was any buying/selling going on there. Last thing I need...
It is. Very pretty, would usually be considered a Flora type, although these seem to be sort of an intermediate form between the ones really...
I do my best. I love conch shell pieces. Think I posted my largest, most elaborate one before, the Dipping of Achilles? Always good to see:...
My mother was still buying them for me at that age, or at least I remember getting dollhouse furniture at that age. One Christmas time I came...
Describe it to him as a job. :happy:
Wonder if there's not someone among us who has a still functional digital camera they don't use anymore & who would be willing to send it to you...
Think I started saving cameo pix first just of pretty ones with favorite subjects, such as Diana. Then got more & more interested in learning to...
I find cameos are a resource completely overlooked by art & costume historians, but the range of what has been depicted on them is vast. :happy:
I too love the impish, mischievous look both of the Googlies & Bradley's (hello, Bradley) dolls. I'm not an expert at all, but would like to see...
The color is a pretty common one. Between naturally occurring colors & dyes (I have seen newer pieces in pink & green), there is a range from...
:joyful::joyful::joyful::hilarious:
Since I do nearly all my cameo shopping on line, relying on photos & sellers' descriptions alone, I shy away from buying, even when affordable,...
BTW, I love them & hope you can bring them back to regular use. Compared to the rest of the body, the one dangle shown looks extremely crude,...
Despite some peripheral touches of an earlier stylistic period - the pineapple finials, the acanthus leaf bases & the crystal dangles - my...
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