https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/2001/july/imagesfarnham/ Maybe this guy?
You have stumbled into a hornet's nest here. To the best I can understand them from photos alone, I am convinced the first 2 cameos are shell,...
@Elen Beattie (Sorry for "Ellen"ing you before.) Findings are often the best clue to age. Is this what the back of your cameo looks like?...
These are plastic. First one is in same mount as Ellen's: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] This is shell: [ATTACH] And this is hardstone: [ATTACH] I...
It says Opera. That's the Paris Opera in the back, with the winged thingy on top.
Is this also known as a miser's purse?
No others at this time. I think we can be pretty sure that most cameo portraits made during the life of the sitter were done from a photograph....
Is it a wax facsimile of a seal? Or a facsimile of a wax seal?
When I checked the stats on lefties, one caveat was that lefties very often switch hands depending on the task. I had a boyfriend who used mainly...
Without wasting my time to go look for it, suspect this notion, along with other incorrect ones, was published in Anna Miller's Cameos Old & New....
Reminds me a bit of Michael Negrin's stuff, but his dangle has his name.
I'm firmly convinced that sometimes the non-dominant, non-verbal side of our brains, for most of us the right side, can intrude silently into what...
@antiquelover69 No doubt this was a typo, but what a great one. We need that word: never ever let your past destory your future.
When I bought the cameo of the geniuses acting out Hades ferrying a hero to Elysium, it was part of a lot of 2 cameos. This one, of Shakespeare &...
If you wore it as a brooch on your chest, you might feel uncomfortable with how long people were staring at your boobs. Let us not forget...
She's a pretty large cameo. She lives next to an equally large sister, who is mounted in a cuff bracelet worthy of Wonder Woman. [ATTACH] The...
It's not just this one. Over the years I have seen pieces, especially some contemporary Italian ones, that were just so strange they deserved a...
Seconding Mirana: that is really so sweet of you. These days I am buying next to nothing. I have reached a stage where I'll see something &...
And when I first began to take a serious interest in cameos I would encounter sellers who were nostalgic for the good old days when they could...
I think I was very lucky to cross paths with it. Really nice pieces seem to be becoming scarce, at any price.
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