My eyesight is lousy - having cataract surgery next week. It is definitely too poor to look at the photo of the back & see whether it is signed...
If my cameo is who I think she is, she was married to this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Arons She stayed in Berlin & committed suicide...
Absolutely the story of my cameo researches. A fair number of times I have stumbled into something I really wanted to know but couldn't find when...
Fee, fi, faux, fum - the fakes are becoming scarily good, an increasing hazard when buying cameos on line with only photos to go by.
Because you confused me with this after I suggested it was a water gourd. Thought you were ruling out water. :)
Maybe the gourd is where he keeps his steed? [ATTACH] From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Guolao Zhang Guolao 'decanting' his horse.
Hello Any Jewelry - Was hoping you would weigh in. Just noticed the staff is bamboo. Don't know anything about Japanese flora, but maybe the...
There must have been German tourists too. Have noticed that when museums have a cameo of unknown origin, they invariably assign it to Italy or...
I do have a cameo handed down in a German Jewish family. Much of the family fled to South America as Nazism was advancing. A descendant ended up...
Kept meaning to say that you must have looked like the goddess Flora.
Any Jewelry is knowledgeable about items from Asia, but perhaps has not seen this thread.
She would have been cut in Italy. Germany, particularly the Idar-Oberstein region, is known for its hardstone cameos. The ones that resemble...
https://www.etsy.com/listing/152914953/rare-vintage-chinese-hand-carved-wooden...
And I was actually looking for some calipers suited to my needs earlier today.
Wondered if this thread would come to a conclusion so I could check my own assessment that all were artificial. Not that some man made ones don't...
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