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Message:: [QUOTE="Snowman Cometh, post: 13253363, member: 83302"]That's the first one I'd pass on of his. Looking at that, the ads at the bottom brought me to this one and a dealer in Japan. This seller's cameos are ones that I would question whether they're hand carved or done by machine. [ATTACH=full]562183[/ATTACH] I think my main problem with ALL cameos are if it's being sold as a cameo, I consider the word cameo to mean hand carved when it's on shell. This is shell, and I doubt it's hand carved. But, I could be completely wrong. Which brings me to the antique resellers, they also think cameos are hand carved, and many are wrong in their descriptions on what it's made out of, and how it's made. How many poured lava cameos are advertised as hand carved? Then there are people like this seller, who know the truth, and word it so you think it's handcarved without actually writing it. In this case "Signed" would denote "it's signed because someone carved it." I don't think that's what it is. Again, I could be wrong. <a href="https://www.ebay.com/str/kyotocoral?_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/str/kyotocoral?_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/str/kyotocoral?_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197</a> He does list some hand-carved, but he also lists them as vintage. They're not. They're new from Italy. His ones with Japanese designs are not listed as hand carved, mostly just signed.  Unless I see something spectacular located in Japan, and don't care how it was made, I wouldn't buy anything listed as a cameo out of Japan or China.[/QUOTE]

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