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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 315557, member: 5833&quot;]As lava cameos go, this certainly does appear to have some age on it.&nbsp; Have never seen one I could reliable place back to the Georgian, but I don&#039;t know that they had not begun to be made then.&nbsp; Popular as souvenirs to Vesuvius and the towns buried at its feet, lava cameos must have started out as a bit of a novelty.&nbsp; They are vulnerable to damage and seem sometimes to crack spontaneously from dryness.&nbsp; This one has kept its integrity but has certainly become quite effaced.&nbsp; It is probably Dante Alighieri, along with other famous Italian poets and artists, a popular lava subject.&nbsp; Petrarch is another possibility, but think Dante.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]104650[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]104651[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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