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<p>[QUOTE="mirana, post: 9811852, member: 79705"]Here's a tortoiseshell comb <a href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O353668/comb/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O353668/comb/" rel="nofollow">from the V&A</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]487981[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your wife's two collections probably show that she's spent a lot of time studying cameos and what they were made out of! You should point her our way!! We have an ongoing <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/">Cameos discussion thread that is here</a> and super interesting for a collector, or she could post a new thread with some of her favorites for us to ooo and ahh over up close!</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, she probably is aware that you don't stamp tortoiseshell, you mold or carve it, which we've been doing since before ancient Roman times because we didn't have plastic yet. You heat it up and then press it into a mold or can carve it like ivory. Here's a cameo of Queen Anne <a href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O72872/queen-anne-r-1702-1714-medallion-obrisset-john/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O72872/queen-anne-r-1702-1714-medallion-obrisset-john/" rel="nofollow">from the V&A</a> that was made by pressing the tortoiseshell into a mold:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]487986[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mirana, post: 9811852, member: 79705"]Here's a tortoiseshell comb [URL='https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O353668/comb/']from the V&A[/URL] [ATTACH=full]487981[/ATTACH] Your wife's two collections probably show that she's spent a lot of time studying cameos and what they were made out of! You should point her our way!! We have an ongoing [URL='https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/']Cameos discussion thread that is here[/URL] and super interesting for a collector, or she could post a new thread with some of her favorites for us to ooo and ahh over up close! Anyway, she probably is aware that you don't stamp tortoiseshell, you mold or carve it, which we've been doing since before ancient Roman times because we didn't have plastic yet. You heat it up and then press it into a mold or can carve it like ivory. Here's a cameo of Queen Anne [URL='https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O72872/queen-anne-r-1702-1714-medallion-obrisset-john/']from the V&A[/URL] that was made by pressing the tortoiseshell into a mold: [ATTACH=full]487986[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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