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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 13254702, member: 5833&quot;]<a href="https://www.houjudo.co.jp/en/products/cameo_bx00239" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.houjudo.co.jp/en/products/cameo_bx00239" rel="nofollow">https://www.houjudo.co.jp/en/products/cameo_bx00239</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.houjudo.co.jp/cdn/shop/products/bx00239_2.jpg?v=1611645210&amp;width=1800" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>They are not identical, but clearly something &quot;Balzano&quot; cuts repeatedly.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure what technology exists for cutting replica cameos in shell.&nbsp; Hardstone mass produced cameos are done ultrasonically.&nbsp; Not sure shell can stand up to anything mechanical, but a skilled cameist cutting the same design time and again can probably do it faster than we imagine.&nbsp; It is possible that apprentices do the scenery on something like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find many, maybe most, contemporary cameos to have a cartoonish quality to them.&nbsp; Think I have called them camanga elsewhere.&nbsp; They do not appeal to me, but have found great favor in Japan, although it looks to me that increasing numbers of them are being dumped onto the secondary market.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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