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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 1096110, member: 5833&quot;]Very good, all.&nbsp; The cameo, as [USER=8184]@Jivvy[/USER] said, is artificial.&nbsp; I have never handled one, but she turns up regularly, often described as lava, so I surmise she is &#039;lava glass&#039;, molded glass with a coating that really does feel like fine grained lava to the fingertips.&nbsp; When undamaged, it is very difficult to tell from genuine lava because the weight &amp; coolness don&#039;t differentiate it.&nbsp; However, when you repeatedly see the exact same cameo, in the very same color, you know you are looking at something mass produced.&nbsp; This one has crazed, as have some others I have seen, so really no excuse for mistaking it for hardstone or lava.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the photos it&#039;s not really possible to know for sure about the gold colored mount.&nbsp; [USER=129]@Arlene_V[/USER] &amp; [USER=5006]@kyratango[/USER] point out, &#039;pinchbeck&#039; is used fairly indiscriminately as synonymous with &#039;not really gold, just looks like it&#039;.&nbsp; I let this bit slide because I care much more about the cameo than the setting.</p><p><br /></p><p>It really does swivel &amp; it does have a C clasp.</p><p><br /></p><p>A bit unfair perhaps to give you a photo of the other side that does not enlarge the way it does on eBay (did you know you can press Ctrl + + to make the screen bigger?) but as nearly as I can tell, the pressed flower is actually a piece of fabric with a floral print.&nbsp; Since the flower is art work, I did not give any thought to type of flower.&nbsp; Will leave that to the botanically inclined.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, as [USER=33]@Figtree3[/USER] said, the prose, if we can call it that, is execrable.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]210596[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]210597[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]210598[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]210599[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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