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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 633524, member: 5833&quot;]I believe it goes this way up &amp; is either FH or TH:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]182558[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Not infrequently, cameos have marks on the back that were not put there by the person who made it.&nbsp; Dealers&#039; inventory numbers are common.&nbsp; These initials might have belonged to an owner, the jeweller from whom the owner bought the brooch, or the wholesale dealer who sold the cameo to the jeweller.&nbsp; Some sets of letters may be price codes.&nbsp; Some numbers may have been put there by pawn brokers.&nbsp; German hardstone cameos may have an assortment of marks with some scratched out; I hypothesize these are the products of workshops where more than one person works on a piece, with only the initials of the final hand being left uneffaced.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since I have the advantage of having seen 4 or 5 cameos with this signature, none of the others with these additional initials, think it&#039;s fair to say they are not those of the cutter.&nbsp; Which takes us to...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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