Featured CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer

Middle one is Mr Handsome. Left looks like a workman on his break. What is that on Mr Rights head? A shell?

 

A helmet?

 

A helmet it is. Heroes, except for Hercules & Odysseus, are portrayed in helmets most of the time. Mr. Left wears sort of a Phrygian cap. It's that chin strap beard I swoon for.

 

@Bronwen
Re: the cameo in our PM discussion
Are these initials or symbols? Right way up or sideways?
Kinda looks like a sideways D H to me...

 

Usually signatures around the edge would go this way up:



But this looks more like something legible the other way around:



I don't doubt it is a signature; beyond that... I'm imagining something like Henri St. T___. Strictly making things up, with the assumption it's French.

 

Finally arrived all the way from France! I thought it might be ivory but in handling it, I’m not so sure. I see no Schreger lines and it feels very light weight. The setting appears to be brass. I would actually be considering plastic except for the fact that I do see chisel marks?? Seller did not make any claims at all about whether it was carved, molded, shell, etc, etc. Seller did claim that it represented Anne of Brittany but that’s debatable.
Any thoughts?

 

It looks like molded Something. Beyond that, dunno.

 

I picked up these 2 the other day, both set in 9ct gold,

1st. i cant make out the stamp but i think it ends in R.C or R.G

2nd sorry the picture isn't clearer. but i really like this 1

 

Afraid I can't help you with the name of the setting maker, but the cameos are helmet shell, almost certainly cut in Italy, mid 20th century.

 

If it's not ivory, it may be Celluloid or similar. I'd have to handle it to feel sure. You don't sign plastic, so perhaps the mold was taken from a cameo in another medium, which could have been ivory. The French make such high quality artificial cameos, I think they have value in their own right. I encouraged you on this one, feeling a bit contrite. Try the tooth test on the back. Celluloid is as slick as glass; ivory has a grain to it.

 

No need, I still love it!

 

Whew! If she's not ivory, she's even rarer. Have you tooth tested her?

 

Slick as glass and cool to the touch. The way it is “undercut“ at the back of the woman’s hair, I thought that would NOT indicate molded?

 

It suggests to me she is assembled of 2 pieces.

 

I think your new cameo is lovely!

 

As promised, here are two of my cameos. Neither are signed, but I smile each time I see them.

 

Love the fishy!.He looks like he has just spotted a shark

 

Wow, that fish!

The other one is very pretty, too.

 

Showing it here as I don't know where else to start. This is a shell cameo pendant set in 12 kt gf. Sorry, it's an old image from my archives, quite small. The carved oval cameo without setting was well over 2" high and 1.5" wide.

I don't know anything about it except that I no longer own it. At a small luncheon jewelry show & tell party of personally invited collector friends and some friends of theirs at my house about a dozen years ago this cameo was gone when the party ended.

It wasn't missed immediately but soon thereafter. As no one but me had access to my collections after the party it wasn't difficult to figure out when it had disappeared. There was no one I could or even wanted to suspect to have taken it so I swallowed my disappointment and let it go. I checked on eBay for months thereafter to see if it'd be listed but never saw it.

Does anyone here recognize it? Not that I expect to ever see it again but it would be nice if someone would come forward about having seen it somewhere. I wouldn't expect to get it back, just want to know if it has been seen. Thanks to any and all comments.

 

Would like to see the backs. They're 20th century, but from the condition of the settings seen from the front, they look like they might be older than I would have guessed from the subjects on the front. The lady might be 1930s. The fish, who's adorable, is in keeping with the contemporary cameo practice of putting very non-traditional subjects on cameos.

Here's an American cameo designer:

https://www.katherinewallach.com/collections/cameos

And you may run into cameos by Amedeo, often being resold for much less than the original price: https://amedeo.shop/