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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 346366, member: 5833"]I don't know about death, but I love them to what may end as poverty.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you want it for personal use, not for sale, any price is too much if it's not to your taste. Resisting buying such things just because they are a good deal is a good way to save money for when something you really do like comes along.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Someone, man presumably, really loved that ring. It is actually quite a nice cameo. Considering the amount of wear to the silver, cameo is in surprisingly good shape. Looks like Mars. I don't know about jewellery in general the way I know about cameos specifically, so can't say much about the ring itself. Overall shape is still made; perhaps the decoration will give someone else a clue. With cameos, it is always possible they are older than the setting. I have a cameo done by someone who died before 1860 set in 14K gold with a Soviet hallmark.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Exactly right. I love it too.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not the only one who has noticed that some cameos come along in clusters, then disappear again. Ladies in such collars are more usually done in hardstone. Just last night fielded an inquiry from someone asking about a cameo similar to yours & I told them I couldn't remember seeing that subject in that material before. Now this one. Should be a third sometime soon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 346366, member: 5833"]I don't know about death, but I love them to what may end as poverty. If you want it for personal use, not for sale, any price is too much if it's not to your taste. Resisting buying such things just because they are a good deal is a good way to save money for when something you really do like comes along. Someone, man presumably, really loved that ring. It is actually quite a nice cameo. Considering the amount of wear to the silver, cameo is in surprisingly good shape. Looks like Mars. I don't know about jewellery in general the way I know about cameos specifically, so can't say much about the ring itself. Overall shape is still made; perhaps the decoration will give someone else a clue. With cameos, it is always possible they are older than the setting. I have a cameo done by someone who died before 1860 set in 14K gold with a Soviet hallmark. Exactly right. I love it too. I'm not the only one who has noticed that some cameos come along in clusters, then disappear again. Ladies in such collars are more usually done in hardstone. Just last night fielded an inquiry from someone asking about a cameo similar to yours & I told them I couldn't remember seeing that subject in that material before. Now this one. Should be a third sometime soon.[/QUOTE]
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