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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluumz, post: 767562, member: 649&quot;]This was probably already discussed somewhere but I&#039;ll throw it out here anyway...</p><p><br /></p><p>My main interest is vintage clothing. Name designers, even in couture, sometimes have never actually touched a piece, despite it going out of their &quot;house&quot; with their name on it. It may be their design, but someone else actually did the construction. Well, I read somewhere in the last few weeks about a cameo carver who worked in the XYZ cameo shop (can&#039;t remember the name of the shop but it wasn&#039;t the carver&#039;s own name), so that made me think of the possibility that not all cameos with a carver&#039;s name on them were actually carved by the personage of that name... that the name on the back of the cameo is the name of the head carver/shop but the cameo was perhaps just carved in their shop by an &quot;under-carver&quot;.</p><p>That could account for the different qualities of carvings with the same name on them (ie: Silz) and, I suppose, why the signature may appear different on some pieces, or even that the piece is signed multiple times. And perhaps the shop had different price points for their cameos, depending on who in the shop carved them, though they might all bear the signature of the shop... like couture vs boutique vs ready-to-wear, etc all bear the same fashion designer&#039;s name. And taking it even further, perhaps different carvers in the shop were responsible for different stages of carving, or even for different parts of the carving, ie: specialize in hands, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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