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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 591469, member: 5833&quot;]Saw the Sangiorgi gems at Christie&#039;s &amp; they do have people attending that section who will take anything you want to see out of the locked cases, so I did actually get to have the grasshopper &amp; the Venus Callipygous I love so much in the palm of my hand.&nbsp; Another visitor who was a dealer/collector said he knew the Getty was planning to be a bidder, glumly predicting they would drive prices beyond where most individual bidders could go.&nbsp; [USER=33]@Figtree3[/USER] They told me Oxford/CARC had examined all the gems, so they know the one that was lost is now found.</p><p><br /></p><p>Was told there was a whole case of cameos/intaglios in another part of the exhibition space.&nbsp; When I found it, turned out to be one person&#039;s collection consisting of 700+ pieces, a handful thought to be ancient, the rest said to be Georgian &amp; later but I would say Victorian &amp; after.&nbsp; There were a number of interesting ones, many pretty ones, but also a shocking number of badly cut navette shaped ones that had clearly come out of rings that were scrapped.&nbsp; Some little coral pieces, ditto.&nbsp; Others are clearly the rectangular warrior cameos so common in men&#039;s rings.&nbsp; They are to be sold as one lot.&nbsp; I&#039;ll have to try to keep track to see what happens to it.&nbsp; Was rather shocked that Christie&#039;s would accept the schlocky pieces for consignment, really lowers the tone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the lot:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/largely-18th-19th-and-20th-century-european-6198753-details.aspx?from=searchresults&amp;intObjectID=6198753&amp;sid=790d662a-b904-4c94-a7ba-3675edb92aab" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/largely-18th-19th-and-20th-century-european-6198753-details.aspx?from=searchresults&amp;intObjectID=6198753&amp;sid=790d662a-b904-4c94-a7ba-3675edb92aab" rel="nofollow">https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/largely-18th-19th-and-20th-century-european-6198753-details.aspx?from=searchresults&amp;intObjectID=6198753&amp;sid=790d662a-b904-4c94-a7ba-3675edb92aab</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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