Featured CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer

Just a bit ostentatious?

 

I KNEW you'd get the answer!!!

 

... Barely!

 

The cap that Hermes/Mercury wears is called a petasus/petasos.

 

I never understand why, if you're going to put in the expense & effort of giving a shell cameo this treatment, you don't start with a better cameo. Competent cutter, not more. An eye-catcher all right.

 

It's nice occasionally to be able to find a clear answer when someone asks. Plus, had not seen him before, so another one for my 'collection' too.

 

All eyes on deck. I asked before whether anyone thought this man



could possibly be the same person as this one



and the consensus was no. [Edit, see below.] These 2 Tassie impressions are both supposed to be of Rev. R. Burnside. Thoughts?



For now going on the notion that the Burnside in question is Robert Burnside of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, eulogized here.

 

Baptist? Don't you mean Adventist?

 

Nope, Baptist. Surprised me too.

https://books.google.com/books?id=vjvLbsr9Z54C&dq=rev.+robert+burnside+baptist&source=gbs_navlinks_s

 

Never heard of that denomination - Adventists, definitely. I went looking, thinking the Baptist moniker was succeeded by Adventist. But no.

 

The 2 impressions catalogued right before a run of ones supposed to be Burnside are Alexander Pope, also in fur collar with similarly arranged hair. Profile is a lot like this version of Pope by Roubiliac:

 

The arguments over the exact nature of the Trinity & who gets to be saved, who not, were fierce. Once Christians began to break away from Rome, all theological h**l seems to have broken loose. Burnside seems to have been quite the hardliner, although his little bit of a Wiki entry says he made good money teaching languages. Have to pay for a fur collar somehow.

I'm having doubts based on how many separate engraved gems Raspe lists as being Burnside when good luck trying to find a portrait of him in some other medium & the great similarity with...

Trailed off there to do some more poking. SORRY ALL. The way Raspe did his catalogue can lead to confusion when he carries info over from one entry to the next. Guy in the fur collar is Pope; the Rev. Burnside was the owner of one of the gems Tassie took an impression from.

 

This lady is being listed as resin.. I think it might be lava, but I'm afraid I can't see it clearly because I want her to be lava (and no, it doesn't sound crazy at all, I know). What do you think ? Thank you !

 

I think she's resin. Or that stuff @Bronwen has mentioned that's meant to mimic lava. Lava glass? I can't find her warnings about it, though.

And I swear I've seen this lady before, but I could be making that part up.

I don't think this post is as helpful as I intended at the start.

 

Go back to page 137 of this thread, bottom of page.

 

Well, frack me. *


*For the unwashed, that's a Battlestar Galactica reference.

 

137, lesson learned !
Thank you for saving me some money ! But I'm pretty sure I will find something else pretty soon..

 

Oh, you will. Trust me.

 

Gee, what else could possibly be on your mind right now? Hope the hatches are battened down & all stays well with the Jivvy house & its residents over the next several days.