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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;antidiem, post: 4557922, member: 30&quot;]Yes this is it, and thank you for bringing the photo over. To my eye, the cameo has no age wear on it, stands very high up from the setting and is unevenly set in the bezel, as though it could be a replacement -- well that&#039;s what I continue to see and what I was asking. Makes total sense that the bezel must follow the contours of the cameo itself, of course. Just something about the face of this cameo being so unworn and new looking, by comparison to the half pearls being so worn an area! I have one coral cameo ring from my grandmother or great grandmother but it is so very worn on the surface that the features of the lady&#039;s head have become indistinct through the years. Granted, a ring takes more abuse than a pendant. I cannot resolve the lack of wear and the modernistic looking 4-toed carved lady figure on marshmellow ice-cube clouds in my mind as antique. </p><p><br /></p><p>To my way of thinking, this looks more like a hodge podge of a pendant made from an older piece of onyx with diamond that someone discarded likely due to the poorly cut edge, and the cameo (a replacement or a fantasy?) not carved by an Italian maker. Bronwen, have you ever seen cameo carved &quot;reproductions&quot; (for lack of a better term) imported into the United States or Europe from China or Indonesia or from other foreign countries?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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