Gilded bronze is my best shot. That verdigris oxidation could also indicate brass, but the color of this seems too deeply brown for brass, to my eye.
I didn't really try to assess them in detail. Only noted that both pieces have some repetition of glyphs between the first & third registers....
The ruler shown in pix is marked in cm. By my count it is about 10 cm long, which is just about 4 inches. The other is similar in color & in...
This is similar to yours: https://www.ebay.com/itm/275215322281
Sigh.
Sounds like picker heaven, although these days with the internet in everyone's pocket, not so easy to get a real score. Asking prices for cameos...
It could be basalt, which often has olivine inclusions. The inscription is a more involved one than is usual on current day tourist items. May...
It also allows for mass production. A master engraver makes the original, which can then be copied ad infinitum. All the ones you have shown us...
Wow, very nice indeed. I'd like to see it when it's clean.
Despite my quarrels with its identification of cameo subjects, the book Cameos Old & New is a source for info on contemporary cameo production....
A Reliquia seems to be Portuguese. If it's a nod to the novel, suggests production of modern fakes.
The mark I see most commonly on pieces like this is '800', when the piece has been mounted in Italy. With its bifurcated prongs & the safety...
The third one is Heracles & Omphale in what is called a jugate composition. It's a favorite of mine. The original is by Brown & is in the...
I thought this was our cameo thread?
Do you not have a testing stone? You shouldn't be applying acid directly on the piece. The mark looks to me like something incidental to the...
Google still has a thing or 2 to learn. The metal is probably silver, but may be 800 rather than 925 in fineness. The cameo is cut in helmet...
I would say late 19th century. The figure is Psyche: https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/psyche
The Raphael is one of my Mouhé pieces. The other is a grab from eBay. I recall the seller saying something like they found her very beautiful,...
Hat-Hair gives me a Raphael vibe: [ATTACH] I have just the girl for him. (No, not mine.) [ATTACH]
Judging from the pieces in the new accumulation (the theft of the others must have been like a knife in the heart!) you have not fallen into this...
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