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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 335793, member: 5833"]You could sort of fake it & claim it was for putting on a ribbon around the neck, Gibson Girl style, but how anyone could see it as a brooch...?</p><p><br /></p><p>The power of wishful thinking is very strong. Think we all fall prey to it at times. Cameos offer lots of opportunity. I see shell represented as coral, glass as stone, post-WWII as antique, antique as ancient, with correspondingly higher prices than appropriate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 335793, member: 5833"]You could sort of fake it & claim it was for putting on a ribbon around the neck, Gibson Girl style, but how anyone could see it as a brooch...? The power of wishful thinking is very strong. Think we all fall prey to it at times. Cameos offer lots of opportunity. I see shell represented as coral, glass as stone, post-WWII as antique, antique as ancient, with correspondingly higher prices than appropriate.[/QUOTE]
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