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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 3058711, member: 5833&quot;]Your cameo is based on the Antinous Braschi, the one I posted, not the Antinous Mondragone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mondragone:&nbsp; <img src="https://cameotimes.com/images/Antinous/MondragoneVA2.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Braschi: <img src="https://cameotimes.com/images/igallery/resized/201-300/BraschiA6-216-800-600-80.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Most jewellers are far more knowledgeable about the metal of the setting than about cameos themselves.&nbsp; Yours was correct that yours is Victorian and the quality is quite a bit higher than that of the mount it is in, only because it is silver instead of gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cameo prices have been all over the place.&nbsp; I see outrageous asking prices for quite ordinary shell cameos.&nbsp; At present a cameo set in silver is not selling for any more than a cameo that is not mounted at all.&nbsp; I would value your cameo at 400 GBP minimum to perhaps 600 GBP at the top.&nbsp; That is only my opinion of what would be a fair price in current conditions.&nbsp; Appraisals for insurance purposes, at least in the US, tend to be highly inflated &amp; might double that.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have cameos all around but only worry about possible theft in the case of those in gold mounts, as well as those that are not it solid gold but look like it.&nbsp; Thieves are more interested in melt value.&nbsp; They know even less about the value of cameos than jewellers do.&nbsp; I would just recommend keeping yours someplace that&#039;s not obvious, not in the jewellery box on the dresser top.&nbsp; A thief might not stop to read the back.</p><p><br /></p><p>You must feel that though it was someone&#039;s loss, it was meant to come to you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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