Featured CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer

Love them. Somewhere on the Internet I have also seen cameos cut in the white filling of Oreo cookies with one chocolate cookie layer behind. Thought it could be a great party activity, kids or adults.

A while back experimented, using some cameos of mine I was not afraid would be harmed by the process, with making molds & then making chocolates. Here are some that showed some promise.

Thought these might be a seller as Chocolate Hunk. But not ready to start a career as a chocolatier.

 

Hi,
When I was living in NYC in the 1970s there was a tiny chocolate store. The woman had "cameo" fudge cookies. The dark chocolate was wonderful as well the "carved" cameo faces she placed on the cookies. She had butterscotch cookies with dark fudge cameos. Gosh now I am hungry.
greg

 

You had to post that twice, didn't you? Sounds lovely. Can't find much that way anymore. And now my stomach is growling. Grrrrr.

 

How about a cameo cookie?

 

Hi Moreotherstuff,
I am on my knees begging with my mouth open. Cookie, please, yum yum.
greg

 

That is WAY too pretty to eat!

 

Those fancy ones never taste any good, Greg. Try these... it's a friend's recipe.

Healthier-ish Stress Gorging:
1 cup Peanut Butter
1 cup Brown Sugar
1 Egg
1 Tbsp flour
[bag Hershey kisses, optional]

Roll dough 1" balls (makes 40)
350 8-10 mins.
Press w/fork if you're not saying the hell with it and smooshing kisses in 'em.
You're welcome.

Susan Butler Carpenter
11/17/2017

 

Here's a place where you can buy edible cameo toppers:
https://www.catchmyparty.com/vendors/product/cameos-edible-topper-tea-party-vintage

And an eBay listing:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Victorian-...-Cake-Cupcake-Topper-Decoration-/331965148761

There must be others.

 

Hi evelyb30,
I am making the cookies tonight. God knows what my blood sugar will be. Thank goodness I am out of Hershey's kisses.
greg

 

I just chowed on a Friendly's cake-covered ice cream bar this afternoon. It was needed and appreciated, but not very pretty. I'm too wiped out to bake, but not to appreciate cameos.

 

Hi,
I made the dang cookies and since I was out of Hershey's I made a thumbprint and filled the depression with Nutella. I only made half a batch so I was able to eat all of them. If I do not log on tomorrow it is because my blood sugar went over 500 and I am in a diabetic coma.
greg

 

Nutella in cookies sounds like an OK substitution. I'd be tempted to just grab a spoon and forget the cookies.

 

I’ve been looking for ages at the fabulous pieces here and learned a lot, thanks.
However, I’m pretty clueless about these earrings I picked up today. Think they are glass, (even though I can’t see any bubbles), very pale blue, unmarked for silver but I think probably they are. The oval is nearly an inch long. I’d like to know roughly how old they are please. Is the glass poured into a mould to make them? They look much better and detailed when the light shines through,the photos don’t do them justice.TIA.

 

Hi, Houseful. Yes, they are glass, made in a mold. This figure is so ubiquitous, have to suspect she is still being made, but the cameos/intaglios were originally a product of W. Germany, so definitely post-WWII. Jewellery made using them can be from anywhere, I only occasionally see a completed piece marked as German. I can't say anything with certainty about the metal, but no reason it couldn't be silver. The degree of tarnish would be consistent.

Was going to speculate on age based on fact they are for pierced ears, which were not common in the US until the late 1960s. Since ring holding the parts together is not soldered closed, possible they have been converted from screw backs, so maybe earlier. More likely they are in original condition & only the tarnish indicates they were not made last week.

 

Thank you Bronwen. I do enjoy this thread and haven’t wanted to post the other pair of cameo earrings I have, as they are plastic!

 

Plastic doesn't have to mean uninteresting. Let's have a look.

 

I’ll dig them out.

 

Those findings are still being made and used, so odds are those earrings are pretty new. Like Bronwen said, they could have come from anywhere.

 

Rufus, your coral cameo looks like Venus with a diadem. Do you think there were diamonds in the diadem at one time?

 

Pretty sure it is Ceres/Demeter, wearing a wreath of grain stalks. It's only because I have seen others often enough to recognize the over all shape. Couldn't find a coral example in my files, but this black lava cameo is a similar type.