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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 938767, member: 5833"]When you find 2 that are exactly identical, you know you are looking a mass produced piece in artificial material. When you find 3, the case is closed. You've just posted a link above where I'm writing that has 'goldette' in it. Goldette is a costume jewellery maker. Here's that one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]202965[/ATTACH] If yours is the tanzanite color it looks in the photos instead of the wine color of these others, I like yours better. Yours is in a different setting than the Goldette piece we've seen & I like it better too.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's a very pretty piece, & from photos looks like it really catches the light. I put the cameo up because the head is one that was copied (the original is an angel in a painting by Raphael) by many gem engravers & the design of your figure may have been influenced by it. Whether or not the design of the mass produced glass elements was originally copied from an actual engraved amethyst, I have no way to know. Certainly 'in the style of'; no reason to believe they are exact reproductions.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When you're hoping to find what? With something like this & you have your fingers crossed it is genuinely an engraved amethyst, the thing to look for is another one just like it so you can use that hand again. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 938767, member: 5833"]When you find 2 that are exactly identical, you know you are looking a mass produced piece in artificial material. When you find 3, the case is closed. You've just posted a link above where I'm writing that has 'goldette' in it. Goldette is a costume jewellery maker. Here's that one: [ATTACH=full]202965[/ATTACH] If yours is the tanzanite color it looks in the photos instead of the wine color of these others, I like yours better. Yours is in a different setting than the Goldette piece we've seen & I like it better too. It's a very pretty piece, & from photos looks like it really catches the light. I put the cameo up because the head is one that was copied (the original is an angel in a painting by Raphael) by many gem engravers & the design of your figure may have been influenced by it. Whether or not the design of the mass produced glass elements was originally copied from an actual engraved amethyst, I have no way to know. Certainly 'in the style of'; no reason to believe they are exact reproductions. When you're hoping to find what? With something like this & you have your fingers crossed it is genuinely an engraved amethyst, the thing to look for is another one just like it so you can use that hand again. :)[/QUOTE]
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