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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 382149, member: 5833&quot;]The cameo world seems to be plagued with confusion, inaccuracies &amp; inconsistencies when it comes to the names of materials commonly used.&nbsp; That&#039;s what I meant about Vesuvian lava, the material blasted out may be powdered tuff.&nbsp; Most &#039;lava&#039; cameos are definitely calcareous, so what to call them?&nbsp; Then there are ones made using calcareous water from a hot spring &amp; a mold. </p><p><br /></p><p>I find Google the best at the job, but the way they tailor search results to where you are located &amp; what they think you want/need based on past searches drives me nuts.&nbsp; I have sometimes asked friends in other parts of the world to run a search for me, &amp; often enough they have come up with something useful that was not shown to me, or not high up with what are supposed to be results that most closely match what you asked for.&nbsp; Think I got an entire page with no results for &#039;tufo&#039; other than definitions of the Spanish word, mixed in with entries for tufa, tuff, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find IM Translator very helpful, but because what I so frequently read &amp; correspond about is such an obscure topic, it comes up with highly amusing interpretations at times.&nbsp; There is a German firm that puts things, including cameos, up for sale on eBay &amp; clearly uses a translation program for their descriptions but has no one with adequate English who looks them over to see if they quite make sense.&nbsp; In spots you have to translate the translation.&nbsp; This is from the description of an historical figure:&nbsp; <i>with a new beginning in the State were so quite figuratively also the old braids.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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