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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 3063792, member: 5833&quot;]She&#039;s on that borderline between Flora &amp; a pretty art nouveau lady with flowers in her hair.&nbsp; The mark on the pin stem is probably an incomplete 800 mark.&nbsp; She was cut &amp; set in Italy.&nbsp; Think it was established somewhere earlier in this thread that the 800 mark wasn&#039;t used after 1934(?)&nbsp; [Help me someone!]&nbsp; With that type of safety clasp I&#039;d say more likely to be 30s than 20s, but I really don&#039;t know when they came on the market.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can never tell, never try to tell, <i>Cassis rufa</i> from <i>Cassis madagascariensis</i>.&nbsp; There&#039;s individual variability in the coloring &amp; no difference in value.&nbsp; Fridolina is probably correct about <i>rufa</i>; think it tends to be darker.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wipe these with a Sunshine cloth (or similar), leaving most of the background silver dark but bringing out the marcasites so they twinkle.</p><p><br /></p><p>Agree that eBay has become a cameo desert.&nbsp; Mediocre to poor specimens for ludicrous prices.&nbsp; The occasional high quality piece $1,000+.&nbsp; I know some of it has to do with the price of gold.&nbsp; Sometimes shockingly bad cameos still get set in 14k &amp; sellers have some inflated idea of just how much gold a typical cameo mount has, resulting in ridiculous pricing.&nbsp; But something else is at work.&nbsp; [USER=3974]@aaroncab[/USER] why did you want a cameo?&nbsp; Do you still have the one of the guy smoking that used to be your avatar?&nbsp; What is the appeal of cameos at this moment?&nbsp; Trying to understand the cameo climate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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