The devil made me do it. Or maybe it was the ghost of Raphael. Just won at auction, so won't have in hand for a bit yet. [ATTACH] Engraving...
Before it's a functional seal it's a blank, which is what these are. Looks like there were some plans for them. I have one I carefully selected...
Because you can choose the one you want from someone custom engraving your name for you.
The drunk monk certainly doesn't. The monk looks like a transfer to me. The areas around the central image may be what's hand painted.
What komo said.
Other than the answer to the question of what to look for when buying cameos that comes near the beginning, it may be less of a chore if you just...
I don't see stripes indicated on the cats, so wondering if they are lionesses, which do hunt as a team. Not sure tigers do. Although the...
The figure is raised, not just engraved in, so she's a cameo. I looked back through the file I have of wholesale catalogue pages for cameos,...
I don't know if you are going to be contacting her, but, for all of us, from the British Museum's description of an engraved gem: Inscription...
You can see the plaque really well here:...
Some people use mineral oil on their cameos to brighten them up, disguise any dulled places, but I wouldn't trust it not to leave bits exposed to...
Looks like a really messed up instance of this: [ATTACH] This one is faux marbre & I suspect yours is faux bronze; the same company made both....
She doesn't make it easy to see things, but her 'stones' - pretty sure they're glass - I think are copies of gnostic gems, some of them with...
From the mega thread, this is what you risk asking an appraiser to evaluate a cameo: CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer A decent jeweller can...
Before there were ents there was Arthur Rackham. [ATTACH]
Oh, & it's really not necessary to go jabbing a hot needle into it to figure out the material of any cameo you have in hand, although bluumz & I...
Another is that vinegar can dissolve calcium carbonate, of which coral is made. Ketchup helps keep the vinegar from flowing around unconstrained,...
I'm sure you'll all sleep better for knowing I found my MOP necklace. However, despite my fervid hopes, elves had not fixed the knot for the clasp.
Amazing what you can do with a standard cameo of Hera. Perhaps the best known commesso of our day is this one of the young Queen Victoria by...
The one place I can see needing it is a props house that rents to big period productions, such as Gosford Park, where there's a manor or country...
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