Featured CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer

I can readily see the first letter as not-L; can't focus it as an S, although can envision cases of L/S confusion with cursive script. Really need a photo of the area covered by the hot spot to get any further. I can see what might be a capital J starting a second word, or some mix of an upstroke & random scratches in the middle.

 

Some other 'noblewomen' for comparison:

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/ite..._20190911_A&utm_medium=email&utm_content=item

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/ite..._20190911_A&utm_medium=email&utm_content=item

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/ite..._20190911_A&utm_medium=email&utm_content=item

 

what a beautiful set BMRT did the seller send you the photo too?

 

Yes, the seller did send me the photo!

 

She's a defensive end going up for a tipped pass!

 

Thank you @Jivvy. Learning the hard way sometimes.

 

I missed addressing this somehow. To be very honest? I am not sure what exactly he intended to do. Since I could never get a flat answer on if it was outsourced somewhere or not and only vague, “sometimes we send things out” and “I’m not sure who worked on it” I would imagine he’s simply going to ask what type of either heat or acid got on it depending on where it went/who worked on it. Of course he also didn’t tell me when he would call me back, he was MUCH too in a hurry to get me to leave.

To be fair I was also upset and not thinking clearly. I have his number and a lovely follow up call is happening tomorrow. When I looked at their store policy online I noticed a nice little disclaimer I had missed before notifying customers how they are not responsible for items left with them for longer than 30 days.

I’d loath for my issue to somehow end up falling under this “30 day” rule.

 

That was "the one that got away" for me, I saw the same cameo listed for sale earlier this year and hummmmed and haaawwed about the price... meanwhile, someone else bought it. (I don't mean that your partner necessarily bought you the exact same one I was looking at... Noto made quite a few of these based on La Vague.) Beautiful!!

My ex used to just hand me money, saying, "You know better than me what you like." True, but kinda takes the joy out of it.

I immediately dubbed it "Lutece Mol".

 

I do not want to know:

 

Bath time for birdy.
Or maybe, "Into the stew pot!"

 

Now this is a pretty thing:

 

Amethyst?

 

Yes. I don't often like carved gem stones like this & generally the harder they were to do because of the hardness of the stone, the less I like them. Not sure I have ever seen a carved sapphire I would want, & the rare engraved diamonds I've seen leave me cold. Amethyst is quartz just as chalcedony, the mineral used for most hardstone cameos, is, so not different to work. Sometimes the stone chosen is just too dark to make out what's there & sometimes, when you see it, what's there is meh. This is probably copied from an older engraved gem but I don't know offhand who she is meant to be. Ariadne, Niobe...

 

I believe I've posted this beauty before, done in peridot. (I like the amethyst subject better, and that setting is so unusual.)

 

Brings to mind Queen Elizabeth and her court. I believe I’ve missed this when you posted it before. She’s beautiful.

 

Quite likely it is. I remember seeing it before but always good to see again.

 

I'm not really a cameo freak, but I'd wear that green or no green.

 

What I meant about engraved gemstones:

https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/jewels-online/carved-sapphire-diamond-ring-501/79418



If you saw the cameo alone, cut in shell, would you look twice?

 

Probably not, but cutting it in sapphire is a pretty good trick!

 

It is. It would require diamond dust. For the chalcedonies, corundum is sufficient. Have been told that Chinese jade work took off when they found corundum & how it could be used. Before then it took a very long time to make a piece if it required much shaping.