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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4555044, member: 5833&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":greedy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Best I could do for green with envy.&nbsp; Have not seen this with a pendant before, but there are lots of flip rings out there that have a cameo on one side, black onyx with a single little diamond in the middle on the other, so you could wear either way round.&nbsp; That&#039;s what I believe is the case here: that it is made to be reversible.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cameo is quite a nice helmet shell one, although the cutter had some trouble with those pesky hands.&nbsp; Based on image, quality of work, fanciness if setting &amp; the ability to wear it as a piece suitable to mourning, I would put it to turn of the 20th century.&nbsp; Would be extremely surprised if it was not gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>Should not be such a big deal to replace the missing seed pearls</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Essentially the same thing, both chalcedony (microcrystalline quartz).&nbsp; Agate is a kind of formation, not a different mineral.&nbsp; Black onyx is chalcedony that has been dyed to that color.&nbsp; There&#039;s no banding visible here, so it would not generally be seen as agate.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that, folks, is my 20,000th post![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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