Featured Help needed please with cameo

Not all of us R here , all the time.....so please be patient ......and help will come.!!!!
Nice photo's BTW !!!!

 

Thanks ! I was a bit worried. It took me a while to work out how to upload lol.

 

People come and go here. Sometimes help is instant and sometimes it takes a few days for people to see your thread so keep checking back

 

Will do !!

 

Sweet piece! I agree 20th century because of the upturned nose. It is marked for silver and I wonder if the surrounding stones are garnets, you would have to have it tested to make sure.

Please be patient for @Bronwen to check in, she may not be immediately available but her wealth of knowledge on cameos is worth the wait!

 

Thanks Marie ! I think they are garnets too.

 

WELCOME Tenspar !!! ... Joy.

 

Looks like drilled tumble polished garnets wired together.

 

It was made in Naples, Italy, where a lot of cameo jewellery is from. The number of the maker is quite high, so I guess it is quite recent.

The necklace copies an earlier style, ca 1890-1900, which is also when those wired gemstone surrounds were popular. I can see why they revived the style, it is a very nice and elegant design.

 

Thank you. I researched the stamp and found this;

The Laws 30 January 1968 (Legge 30 gennaio 1968 n. 46) and 30 December 1970 n. 1496 (D.P.R. 30 Dicembre 1970 n. 1496) introduced new hallmarks for silver and precious metals. The mark was modified to a polygonal shape and a star was added on the left. Numbers and Province letter were maintained.

So it’s after 1968-70 ?

 

Do you know what the CM stands for please ?

 

I think that is the person who made it. He or she would work for the jeweller whose number code is next to the star. NA means Napoli, Naples.
The cameos would most likely have been made in another workshop, specialized in shell carving.

 

Thanks I’ll have a poke around and see what I can find. Having looked at other examples of carving this seems quite basic ?

 

Yes, you are correct.
We have a long-running thread about cameos that was started by Bronwen. If you have some time, give it a look.
http://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/

It's been going for a few years. You can see examples of different levels of carving and other factors in assessing them.

 

Brilliant thank you very much x

 

You've been given good info by all your respondents. The one does appear to be signed, which is unusual for a cameo like that because, as you say, they are very basic work, & ubiquitous. Afraid I can't help identify the cutter. The piece is more interesting as a whole. The info you found concerning Italian hallmarks is very useful, thanks for posting it. Older cameos that were set in Italy, if they are marked at all, are usually marked for 800 silver, not sterling. Vintage, not antique.

 

Thank you Bronwen for taking the trouble to respond. I appreciate it x