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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 3154299, member: 5833"]Women wore jewellery with cameos of husbands or fathers; men did not wear jewellery with their wives or mothers. A man might have such a cameo portrait in an easel stand or a little case he could take with him when traveling, but these are much less common than male cameos set as jewellery. Cameos of women set as jewellery are apt to be a woman's sainted mother.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Pinterest board of <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/cameotimescom/cameo-portraits-of-victorian-gentlemen/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pinterest.com/cameotimescom/cameo-portraits-of-victorian-gentlemen/" rel="nofollow">male cameos</a> has far more pins than the one I have of <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/cameotimescom/cameo-portraits-of-victorian-ladies/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pinterest.com/cameotimescom/cameo-portraits-of-victorian-ladies/" rel="nofollow">the ladies</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/236x/72/e6/e5/72e6e59eaf7655696af4efb76057362d.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 3154299, member: 5833"]Women wore jewellery with cameos of husbands or fathers; men did not wear jewellery with their wives or mothers. A man might have such a cameo portrait in an easel stand or a little case he could take with him when traveling, but these are much less common than male cameos set as jewellery. Cameos of women set as jewellery are apt to be a woman's sainted mother. My Pinterest board of [URL='https://www.pinterest.com/cameotimescom/cameo-portraits-of-victorian-gentlemen/']male cameos[/URL] has far more pins than the one I have of [URL='https://www.pinterest.com/cameotimescom/cameo-portraits-of-victorian-ladies/']the ladies[/URL]. [IMG]https://i.pinimg.com/236x/72/e6/e5/72e6e59eaf7655696af4efb76057362d.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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