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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 357532, member: 5833&quot;]Reply is par for the course:</p><p><font size="4"><b>Good morning, our GIA certified, in house gemologist is certain that this is hard stone and not glass. </b></font></p><p><font size="4"><b><br /></b></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Thank You </b></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Amber </b></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>STL Auction Co </b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, they&#039;ve been alerted, all I can do.&nbsp; When it sells for much less than they expected, they will have some idea why.&nbsp; I can&#039;t completely rule out that it is hardstone, but the more I look, the more I think it is not, &amp; others experienced with cameos are going to have the same doubts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can&#039;t tell you how many times I have known GIA certified gemologists to be wrong when it comes to cameos or anything not a major focus of their training, nor how many times they&#039;ve been perfectly snotty about it.&nbsp; The jeweller whose hardstone cameo is listed as shell probably also has a GIA Cert. on hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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