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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 11523651, member: 5833&quot;]Think they also get something about precious metals.&nbsp; My memory says that someone once told me that they were taking a GIA course on pearls, but you know how memory is.&nbsp; We had a go at one particular seller who was his own appraiser:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/page-29#post-410925" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/page-29#post-410925">CAMEOS: Show &amp; Tell or Ask &amp; Answer</a></p><p><br /></p><p>But shell, lava, certainly &#039;dripstone&#039; &amp; often coral are outside their ken.&nbsp; Not sure they&#039;re all that reliable for differentiating stone from glass.&nbsp; Now that it has been so long since ivory has been strictly limited, they probably don&#039;t get any training in that either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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