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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 1399020, member: 5833&quot;]Hard to say about age.&nbsp; It&#039;s not new, certainly.&nbsp; I know less about pieces like this.&nbsp; You see these triple angel pieces in coral, &amp; I think Sardinia is where they are worked, so guessing they also took to conch as a substitute for angel skin shades of coral.&nbsp; The degree of detail is not that of work from the height of Victorian cameo work.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back plate could be brass/pinchbeck or rolled gold.&nbsp; Think if it had been mounted in Italy they would have just screwed the findings straight in to the shell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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