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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 2845317, member: 29"]I think your landlady was smoking something that wasn't tobacco. That's even more arrant nonsense. As witnessed by the fact that in the early 20th C and then into the post war years, there was the most wonderful shop on Museum Street called Cameo Corner. Ma bought a brooch there. It was not cheap. </p><p><br /></p><p>Add in the fact that cameos were sold and set in good high carat gold in the 19th C, and were de rigeur souvenirs for those doing the Grand Tour. They were worn extensively by middle class and aristo ladies, as a simple search of contemporaneous photos will show. There's categorically no social stigma here about them, although they had gone a bit out of fashion in the last couple of decades. Back in again now.</p><p><br /></p><p>The claim that costume was for the poor is also nonsense, as witnessed by where it was advertised in both the 19th and 20th C. And who wore it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Tassie's work has high value. Describing it as moulded is not exactly complimentary to his craft. </p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=5833]@Bronwen[/USER][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 2845317, member: 29"]I think your landlady was smoking something that wasn't tobacco. That's even more arrant nonsense. As witnessed by the fact that in the early 20th C and then into the post war years, there was the most wonderful shop on Museum Street called Cameo Corner. Ma bought a brooch there. It was not cheap. Add in the fact that cameos were sold and set in good high carat gold in the 19th C, and were de rigeur souvenirs for those doing the Grand Tour. They were worn extensively by middle class and aristo ladies, as a simple search of contemporaneous photos will show. There's categorically no social stigma here about them, although they had gone a bit out of fashion in the last couple of decades. Back in again now. The claim that costume was for the poor is also nonsense, as witnessed by where it was advertised in both the 19th and 20th C. And who wore it. Tassie's work has high value. Describing it as moulded is not exactly complimentary to his craft. [USER=5833]@Bronwen[/USER][/QUOTE]
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