I blame Global Warming. :)
'Cameo Corner' is rather famous, if any shop specializing in cameos can be 'famous' exactly. I keep a file of cameos with dates so I can compare...
Can you see the other name as Donadio?
Merci, Madame. It's really some of his better work; too bad it fractured. Someone did a good job at chipping out the figure. There were little...
Thanks, you two. There is a slight bump in the shell so it's a bit convex under the roses, giving a greater sense of depth. Having bid on the...
I don't know if it has any bearing on age that they used MA instead of MASS as the state abbreviation.
My fingers type 'cameo' nearly every time I want to put 'came', & of course nothing spell check can do about it. We all also tend to read what we...
Davey will give you correct info when he's awake. I don't participate on Coin Talk, so haven't checked if it also has an Introductions thread....
Completely unrelated, just my new favorite French royal house animal: House of Orleans, Castle of Blois: [IMG] [IMG]
Possible it is initials only, written as linked cursive.
And here's the newest Schmoll. She has been salvaged by breaking away the background shell. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Suspect at the time there was not a language distinction between the material glass & a glass pane in a window, so 'this glass' could be 'this...
The new Tignani Flora. Depth of mount in the back suggests she once had a glazed cover for a memento compartment. Smells like brass. Before &...
I remember their previous appearance. I would call them gaiters. :)
@Jivvy She's here. Don't have the light now to photo the cleaned up obverse, but overhead fluorescent does a good job with signature. Not at...
The Romans were already doing something like this to darken & even out the color of chalcedony, soaking in a sugar solution then subjecting it to...
Be very, very careful if you are being asked to sell for others & to accept what they tell you about age & origin of coins. The Balkans have made...
The Three Graces. https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/three-graces
The condition of the surface of a coin provides information to the expert eye, so whether or not to clean/polish ancient coins is a debated topic....
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