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Message:: [QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 10359385, member: 5833"]I somehow missed a couple of posts at the time of posting. I always say that CameoTimes.com is my book, although, for various reasons, got stalled on it quite some time back.  I have a ton of material collected, but lost the will to write it up in any systematic way.  This has become the place where I share what I know.  Being able to do it in dribs & drabs at least gets some of it out. I feel personally responsible for more people knowing now to check for signatures.  And I think I may have singlehandedly driven up the price for cameo portraits of private individuals. On the other hand, my persistent efforts back in the day, seem to have led to most cameos of the Three Graces offered on eBay (& therefore probably on etsy, too) being correctly identified as such instead of as Three Muses, once a pervasive error, no doubt picked up from the Anna Miller book. The worst, & funniest, thing that has happened, which I reported here at the time I saw it, was that someone, forget which social media, started showing off Schmoll pieces she had found, without mentioning how/where she learned to recognize them, and repeating in all seriousness something I said AS A JOKE, that Schmoll gave away a cameo with every purchase from his family's shop.[/QUOTE]