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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 11564566, member: 5833&quot;]Thank you.&nbsp; I&#039;m pretty chuffed.&nbsp; You can find a handful of other Pestrini cameos on the Internet, but all the ones I have seen are in hardstone, with the last name only engraved on the front.&nbsp; Two in a museum in Stuttgart are attributed to Camillo, but most others are tentatively attributed to Clemente (or Pietro, who seems to have been an ill-tempered hotel keeper).&nbsp; Stuttgart does not say why they believe theirs are by Camillo &amp; I could not find any way to ask them.&nbsp; It is my belief that all the hardstone pieces are by Clemente.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oxford&#039;s Bodleian Library has a database of letters that lists four that mention an engraver, Camillo Pestrini, all with &#039;<i>cammei</i>&#039; among the key words.&nbsp; The letters are held by a library in Italy.&nbsp; Maybe the Antiquers community would like to take up a collection to send me over?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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