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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 434794, member: 5833&quot;]Because I just ran into an <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/401645953074" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/401645953074" rel="nofollow">eBay listing</a> for a copy, I pulled out my copy of Cameos: Classical to Costume, by Monica Lynn Clements &amp; Patricia Rosser Clements, to give it a mini-review.&nbsp; My copy is the 1998 edition; eBayer is selling the 2nd edition from 2008.&nbsp; Unless they have used that great resource that was not available when they first compiled the book, the Internet, &amp; thoroughly revised it, I can&#039;t recommend it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The main organizing principle is type of material.&nbsp; The cameos shown under Lava did all seem, in a quick leafing through, to be lava.&nbsp; The Shell section shows few conch shell cameos among all the helmet shell pieces, no cowrie shell cameos &amp; just calls them all simply &#039;shell&#039;.&nbsp; I saw only a single coral cameo.&nbsp; About 2/3 of the cameos shown as hardstone are black &amp; white versions of common glass ones and are in fact shown again in the section on glass.&nbsp; The cherry on top is the one that gets a page of its own &amp; is described as a wax cameo portrait &#039;depicting Classical woman&#039;s portrait&#039;, ca. 1750.&nbsp; It notes the piece is &#039;museum quality&#039;.&nbsp; It is like these 4, except mounted as a wall decoration, white figure on brown ground.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]152505[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]152506[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]152507[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]152508[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The book&#039;s strong suit is glass &amp; plastic cameos.&nbsp; Lots of photos showing same designs in various colors.&nbsp; If you can find it in a bookstore, I can recommend spending some time looking through those sections to acquaint yourself with cameos commonly seen in costume pieces.&nbsp;&nbsp; Just don&#039;t spend money on it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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