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