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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 291250, member: 5833&quot;]My eyesight is lousy - having cataract surgery next week.&nbsp; It is definitely too poor to look at the photo of the back &amp; see whether it is signed April.&nbsp; Is it clearly legible?&nbsp; Sometimes this type of signature is initials only; almost always they look like you can read them until you really try.&nbsp; When I&#039;m trying to decipher a signature on a shell cameo, I keep in mind that whatever it says, it is probably in Italian.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously there&#039;s no reason the name of the subject could not be put on the back.&nbsp; It is seen frequently with lava cameos of famous Italians.&nbsp; The one of Henri III I put on kyratango&#039;s post has his name on the back, so do one I have of Galileo &amp; another of Charlemagne.&nbsp; They are all hardstone.&nbsp; I have never seen either a shell or a coral cameo with the subject&#039;s name; I have never seen a coral cameo that was signed at all.&nbsp; I have seen a cameo offered for sale as being signed by &#039;May&#039;, clearly incised in cursive.&nbsp; In that case, think it is likely to be an owner&#039;s name.&nbsp; Could be the case here, although think this form of etching would not be employed by a jeweller, for fear of marring the piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do think you should think of her as April from now on, as she certainly could represent La Primavera.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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