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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 11202763, member: 5833&quot;]Great researching, Sunny.&nbsp; And thanks for providing the link to the source.&nbsp; These tourists guides are the main way we know about cameists, particularly those who never worked in hardstone, so I try to keep a record of them.&nbsp; Very interesting that this one names the category as mosaicists &amp; shell engravers, rather than as mosaicists and cameo engravers.</p><p><br /></p><p>We know that the Schmoll family kept a shop and also that Charles Schmoll cut shell cameos, which were presumably sold in the shop.&nbsp; Michelini was another one who did both.&nbsp; I think it is not such a stretch to conclude that Boschetti was the source of your cameo, as cutter, as dealer, or as both.&nbsp; Think if only a dealer marking inventory, he would have written the name more clearly, making an artist signing his work more likely. </p><p><br /></p><p>And too unlikely a coincidence that I read &#039;Boschetti&#039;* without having seen the name before, and then you find that there was a Boschetti in the trade, prominent enough to have been listed in this guide among some famous names.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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