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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 334170, member: 5833"][USER=602]@Aquitaine[/USER] I don't check out what's on Ruby Lane as a regular thing. Many of the same sellers & cameos are on eBay; many cameos that are quite ordinary are overpriced. Since you sent me there, decided to review some of the current listings, starting with the most expensive, then looking in the range where you would like to stay.</p><p><br /></p><p>I saw only a single cameo that I would give a buy recommendation. She is a <a href="http:// https://www.rubylane.com/item/456929-RL-00000295/Brooch-19th-C-Shell-Cameo-Muse?search=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http:// https://www.rubylane.com/item/456929-RL-00000295/Brooch-19th-C-Shell-Cameo-Muse?search=1" rel="nofollow">dancer with a kithara</a>, based on a fresco found at Herculaneum. If the cameo has a bath & the frame is polished just enough to shine up the high points while leaving the ornamentation dark, she would look very nice. I use disposable polishing sheets to do this. Saw another, sale pending, positively alarming. A <a href="https://www.rubylane.com/item/413041-HBRUx209326/Black-White-Onyx78-Cameo-Brooch?search=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.rubylane.com/item/413041-HBRUx209326/Black-White-Onyx78-Cameo-Brooch?search=1" rel="nofollow">glass cameo</a> made in W. Germany, so post-WWII, represented as black & white onyx from 1870 - 1885.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 334170, member: 5833"][USER=602]@Aquitaine[/USER] I don't check out what's on Ruby Lane as a regular thing. Many of the same sellers & cameos are on eBay; many cameos that are quite ordinary are overpriced. Since you sent me there, decided to review some of the current listings, starting with the most expensive, then looking in the range where you would like to stay. I saw only a single cameo that I would give a buy recommendation. She is a [URL='http:// https://www.rubylane.com/item/456929-RL-00000295/Brooch-19th-C-Shell-Cameo-Muse?search=1']dancer with a kithara[/URL], based on a fresco found at Herculaneum. If the cameo has a bath & the frame is polished just enough to shine up the high points while leaving the ornamentation dark, she would look very nice. I use disposable polishing sheets to do this. Saw another, sale pending, positively alarming. A [URL='https://www.rubylane.com/item/413041-HBRUx209326/Black-White-Onyx78-Cameo-Brooch?search=1']glass cameo[/URL] made in W. Germany, so post-WWII, represented as black & white onyx from 1870 - 1885.[/QUOTE]
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