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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 13180641, member: 5833&quot;]I used to be quite good at projecting where a cameo in an eBay auction would fetch up.&nbsp; No longer, not in years.&nbsp; I have said repeatedly that the cameo market has become completely wonky.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The price of gold has been a big factor. There also seems to be a distorted idea of the value of things like genuine shell! hand carved! old! left facing!&nbsp; signed!&nbsp; The penultimate feature is completely irrelevant to value.&nbsp; I fear I may have had a hand in alerting sellers to examine for signatures &amp; ask a premium for those pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s no such thing as an absolute value, only the most someone is willing to pay for it today.&nbsp; Guess the real question is whether it is being offered in the best venue to get it in front of the person willing to pay the most.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I probably would not buy Lo Spagnoletto at all, unless very, very cheap.&nbsp; If I had a special interest in de Ribera, or was trying to amass lava cameos of as many different subjects as I could find, my limit would be considerably higher.&nbsp; In some cases I have paid silly money to gather the Hours.&nbsp; Do you have a sold price for him?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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