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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2795035, member: 5833&quot;]It is a great name.&nbsp; Interesting to see the name &amp; address of a shop in Naples instead of a workshop in Rome, since Naples/Torre del Greco was/is the heart of shell cameo production.&nbsp; He carried all the stuff tourists carried back home: mosaics; coral; cameos (shell); lava; &amp; tortoiseshell.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having the fitted box boosts a cameo&#039;s sale price considerably.&nbsp; Fairly rare.&nbsp; My fanciest pieces did not come with custom boxes.&nbsp; I only have one that did &amp; for some reason the blue velvet finish is all worn off the top, while the bottom is in pretty good shape.&nbsp; The box is sound overall &amp; has an interior metal plate with a tab that functions as a hook the closed pin fits over, very tightly.&nbsp; This is its resident:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]280684[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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