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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 13107566, member: 5833&quot;][ATTACH=full]558882[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Tassie impression 1508.&nbsp; Original by William Brown in &#039;white cornelian&#039; (chalcedony?&nbsp; burnt cornelian?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Couldn&#039;t find the info on the Brown brothers that used to come up in searches, but this is probably pretty much cribbed from it:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.fellows.co.uk/blog/jewellery/2023/04/04/william-brown/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.fellows.co.uk/blog/jewellery/2023/04/04/william-brown/" rel="nofollow">https://www.fellows.co.uk/blog/jewellery/2023/04/04/william-brown/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So the original is 18th - early 19th century; the Tassie impressions first came on the market in the later 18th and turned into quite a craze.&nbsp; Yours is a very faithful copy, so probably the cameist worked from a good impression, not from a copy of a copy of...</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m hungry &amp; so is my cat.&nbsp; Will think some more later.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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