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<p>[QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 330363, member: 6444"]Thanks so much for your responses. Italian, 20th century peasant, would he be before or after WW2?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the invitation, so here are a couple of the ones I'm not sure about. I did check that they appear to be hard, so not just obvious reproductions in soft plastic like I sometimes see. But its harder for me to judge when I can't see the back, and the mounts seem cheaper and later. The first would appear to be a typical design shell cameo much smaller than the peasant.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the second one, I thought all cameos were on pink shell until I started reading the cameo posts here and realized they have been made on all manner of materials. I had thought the black one might be glass, but maybe it is stone? Is there some tests other than visual appearance to distinguish the different materials that are used?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]110426[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]110427[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]110428[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]110429[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]110431[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]110432[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]110433[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]110434[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 330363, member: 6444"]Thanks so much for your responses. Italian, 20th century peasant, would he be before or after WW2? Thanks for the invitation, so here are a couple of the ones I'm not sure about. I did check that they appear to be hard, so not just obvious reproductions in soft plastic like I sometimes see. But its harder for me to judge when I can't see the back, and the mounts seem cheaper and later. The first would appear to be a typical design shell cameo much smaller than the peasant. As to the second one, I thought all cameos were on pink shell until I started reading the cameo posts here and realized they have been made on all manner of materials. I had thought the black one might be glass, but maybe it is stone? Is there some tests other than visual appearance to distinguish the different materials that are used? [ATTACH=full]110426[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]110427[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]110428[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]110429[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]110431[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]110432[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]110433[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]110434[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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