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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2266889, member: 5833&quot;]That&#039;s what I&#039;m saying, &amp; will keep saying, trying to get the word out.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks, bluumz, for digging those up.&nbsp; The post that kyratango was alluding to concerned this photo of an auction lot for 4 shell cameo plaques:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]256971[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Whatever polymer these were made of, it by &amp; large seems quite stable &amp; durable.&nbsp; I have learned from my own cat-involved mishap that it is hard, but brittle.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know what happened to produce this:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]256973[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A stone cameo might crack or chip, but it would never craze like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>The maker of these cameos &amp; certain others is a mystery.&nbsp; Some of their products are marked in ways that suggest the firm was French &amp; in business as early as the late 19th century.&nbsp; As nearly as I can tell, everything they did was misleading, not only their excellent imitations of shell, hardstone &amp; marble.&nbsp; If you want to go deeper in this rabbit hole:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/numismatic-fraud-mystery.31383/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/numismatic-fraud-mystery.31383/">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/numismatic-fraud-mystery.31383/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>For many of their faux marbe plaques I have been able to find the artwork being copied, but not for all their items, including none of their cameos, so not sure if they used some original designs or I just haven&#039;t found the originals yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>This lady &amp; her bird also turns up in silver by Henryk Winograd:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]256974[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t know if one was copying the other or there is an original out there they were both copying.</p><p><br /></p><p># cameo fake artificial woman lady bird dove Winograd[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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