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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 1014200, member: 5833&quot;][USER=649]@bluumz[/USER] [USER=33]@Figtree3[/USER]&nbsp; I owe Hadrien a note.&nbsp; Will tell him you enjoyed.&nbsp; Think somewhere in it he mentions how appalled he is by things a friend shows him from eBay.&nbsp; Guessing that would be me.&nbsp; On the other hand, when I first knew him, he pooh-poohed anything later than high neoclassical and anything other than stone.&nbsp; I have managed to corrupt him.&nbsp; He still prefers Renaissance &amp; earlier, ideally lavishly set with interesting provenance, but does now sometimes pay attention to 19th century &amp; even bought a signed shell one (to sell) at my urging.&nbsp; He has a special interest in gems by Saint-Gaudens.&nbsp; It took a lot of delicate handling of a schizzy seller, but hooked him up with a cameo by Lebrethon, S-G&#039;s second teacher found, yes, on eBay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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