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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;marig, post: 3387099, member: 18088&quot;]Thank you for the detailed response and the photo of the plaster cast! Can you point me to a link or briefly say what is the relationship of the plaster casts to the cameos -- were they made as models for the cameo carvers, like a catalog of available pictures you could pick? You mention that you have Raphael and Michelangelo; is there an entire set of such little cameos to collect?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m so glad to hear there&#039;s a good likelihood that the cameos are truly antique, as the jeweller was dismissive of the cameos.&nbsp; Even my husband, who tells me to be less sensitive and read less into things ;D, independently thought that the jeweller was unnecessarily rude about my questions. It&#039;s not so important, as I really just wanted the set for Petrarch because I like his writings quite a bit. Dante is far more popular, but I think Petrarch speaks to the modern soul more.</p><p><br /></p><p>I started reading from the beginning of this thread today and am having a good laugh as well as learning lots. Like laughing about the cameo being described by people here as the two-left-footed lady with her feathered fish friend patting her derriere. Or the failed auto-translate of Hebe as &quot;lifting&quot; and <i>Götterspeise. </i>That is indeed the brand name for Jell-O as a well as a word for &quot;food of the gods&quot;. There&#039;s a verb in German &quot;heben&quot;, which has the meaning of lifting, so maybe that auto-translate error will show up again. Or learning about the Venus Kallipygos! So Kim Kardashian was not the first!</p><p><br /></p><p>I probably won&#039;t be buying more cameos any time soon, as my jewellery budget needs time to replenish <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /> but I will definitely enjoy reading because it&#039;s fascinating to learn about all the subtle signs and symbols that once were far more common knowledge to the general, well-educated public. It seems like playing detective or archaeologist![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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