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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 288940, member: 5833&quot;]At one time there seems to have been quite a fad for men&#039;s rings like your first one, many are around.&nbsp; Looks like this one has some damage to the white female figure behind the black hero figure in front?&nbsp; The cameo is agate/hardstone, dyed to get these colors.&nbsp; The figures are not anyone in particular.&nbsp; I don&#039;t really know when these were popular, but florid setting strikes me as more 50s than 40s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Black things are just the devil to photograph.&nbsp; The glare &amp; reflected color on your 2 dark ones make them difficult to assess.&nbsp; First is probably glass rather than black onyx.&nbsp; I can&#039;t tell for sure that it is black.&nbsp; Figure is probably Mars/Ares, copied from an ancient gem.&nbsp; Not sure what the setting says about the age.&nbsp; Think newer, not antique.</p><p><br /></p><p>Love the setting for the third one.&nbsp; Strikes me as having an Art Deco feel.&nbsp; The stone does look like hematite, another popular look in men&#039;s ring stones, but, again, pix not giving all the info needed to know.&nbsp; Again, Mars.</p><p><br /></p><p>The&nbsp; last intaglio is lovely, probably copied from this head of Perseus (after Canova) by Luigi Pichler:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/1D2203A2-386C-4DEB-8B74-DEAABE482483" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/1D2203A2-386C-4DEB-8B74-DEAABE482483" rel="nofollow">http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/1D2203A2-386C-4DEB-8B74-DEAABE482483</a></p><p>I get a mixed feeling from this one.&nbsp; The setting could be right out of the 60s.&nbsp; But intaglios were not in fashion then.&nbsp; Although it has the look of engraved carnelian, more likely it is a very good quality glass or paste copy.&nbsp; It is unlikely a genuine engraved gem would be set in a cast silver ring, plus the whole art is nearly lost.&nbsp; Taste &amp; fashion left it behind.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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