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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1271118, member: 5833"]Not sure what 'this' is that is a better match? I'm burned out, so forgive if it should be obvious.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not being able to get them both at the same angle to the camera lens is a major problem. I can't overstate how different the paste intaglio can look with just the slightest shift. Originally I did not think it looked much like the amethyst at all. Then, the more I looked, using different lighting & different magnifiers, tilting it this way & that, the more I saw that one detail or another actually is there. For example, the gorgoneion (Medusa head) on the shield, didn't resolve into anything coherent until I had done an awful amount of looking.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many things are more easily seen in photos than directly. Other than the photo of the complete stone, the photos of mine were all taken with a USB microscope, while details of the amethyst are from one or another of the photos available on the Internet, cropped & enlarged. The CdM description does not say whether the amethyst face is flat or convex. If it were curved, as the glass is, think they would note it, so think that's another source of distortion.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm -grudgingly - open to being convinced the paste is not a direct copy of the amethyst, but you will have to come up with a distinct difference that stays consistent. The Brit's copy is really good, but one clear difference is the helmet set aside on the rock behind him, shown here in an impression of the gem, which is why the other 2 pix have been flipped to face the same way:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]217350[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1271118, member: 5833"]Not sure what 'this' is that is a better match? I'm burned out, so forgive if it should be obvious. Not being able to get them both at the same angle to the camera lens is a major problem. I can't overstate how different the paste intaglio can look with just the slightest shift. Originally I did not think it looked much like the amethyst at all. Then, the more I looked, using different lighting & different magnifiers, tilting it this way & that, the more I saw that one detail or another actually is there. For example, the gorgoneion (Medusa head) on the shield, didn't resolve into anything coherent until I had done an awful amount of looking. Many things are more easily seen in photos than directly. Other than the photo of the complete stone, the photos of mine were all taken with a USB microscope, while details of the amethyst are from one or another of the photos available on the Internet, cropped & enlarged. The CdM description does not say whether the amethyst face is flat or convex. If it were curved, as the glass is, think they would note it, so think that's another source of distortion. I'm -grudgingly - open to being convinced the paste is not a direct copy of the amethyst, but you will have to come up with a distinct difference that stays consistent. The Brit's copy is really good, but one clear difference is the helmet set aside on the rock behind him, shown here in an impression of the gem, which is why the other 2 pix have been flipped to face the same way: [ATTACH=full]217350[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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