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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 1835101, member: 5833&quot;]First, he&#039;s an excellent carving (can I add him to my Pinterest board for cameos of Victorian gentlemen?)&nbsp; It&#039;s hard to know what is going on here without being able to handle the piece.&nbsp; The black outer rim &amp; back look like a typical pre-made jet frame.&nbsp; A shell cameo would then be glued in.&nbsp; Think your guy himself is the usual helmet shell, I just don&#039;t see anything that looks like a brown background shell layer.&nbsp; If I had him in hand, the first thing I would examine is the edge all around the figure where it meets the substrate.&nbsp; My best guess now is that the figure has had the background carefully chipped away from it &amp; the isolated figure embedded in a layer of glue.&nbsp; A home repair job.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most important feature of a cameo is the quality of the carving, so there&#039;s till a lot to like here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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