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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 632667, member: 5833&quot;][USER=602]@Aquitaine[/USER] Thank you so much for this.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Forwarding the image again:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/zz888-nds-help-diana-versailles-mocchi-cxxx-jpg.182458/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]182477[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]182478[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]182482[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The shell of the last one is extremely thin, so the signature is necessarily scratched in very lightly.&nbsp; You can barely see it at all unless you tilt it just the right way to the light.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yesterday won another piece with what I think is the same signature.&nbsp; However, it also appears very shallow &amp; faint &amp; seller photo barely picks it up.&nbsp; I was gambling it was a different cutter who has many of the same letters in his last name, but re-examining the photos after the excitement was over, realized it is more likely to be this one.&nbsp; Won&#039;t be sure until it gets here.&nbsp; The irony is that the other cutter, Michelini, is considered desirable because there is a record of him in tourist guides &amp; exhibition catalogues, he&#039;s a known name.&nbsp; Unless this name can be properly deciphered &amp; something, anything, can be found written about him, Michelini will always be more highly valued, even though this unknown is the superior artist.&nbsp; My new treasure:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]182486[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Have been assuming this name, like the majority of them, is Italian.&nbsp; Now think there is some possibility it is French, and that what I have been seeing as &#039;occ&#039; might be &#039;ou&#039;.&nbsp; Might be.&nbsp; All thoughts welcome on this one too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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