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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 367095, member: 5833"]Some mysteries I may never solve. One is the identity of a Victorian era cameist who seems to have signed even his crudest work and, judging by the frequency with which his pieces turn up for sale, to have been very prolific. I have photos of 22 of his cameos, 4 of them mine, and lost 1 or 2 others when a flash drive went bad. Most of the time his signature looks like 'Silz', occasionally I see what looks like 'Sel' or 'Sll', but a couple of examples have a longer name, irritatingly not quite legible, that does start with S, end with Z & has 2 Ls in between. This is my latest 'Silz':</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]125758[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have never seen any work of his that is really top quality; this is one of his more accomplished pieces. It has a feature you see on helmet shell cameos only now and then: the cutter has polished the white layer. Most of the time Silz and all other cutters left it in its natural matte state.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 367095, member: 5833"]Some mysteries I may never solve. One is the identity of a Victorian era cameist who seems to have signed even his crudest work and, judging by the frequency with which his pieces turn up for sale, to have been very prolific. I have photos of 22 of his cameos, 4 of them mine, and lost 1 or 2 others when a flash drive went bad. Most of the time his signature looks like 'Silz', occasionally I see what looks like 'Sel' or 'Sll', but a couple of examples have a longer name, irritatingly not quite legible, that does start with S, end with Z & has 2 Ls in between. This is my latest 'Silz': [ATTACH=full]125758[/ATTACH] I have never seen any work of his that is really top quality; this is one of his more accomplished pieces. It has a feature you see on helmet shell cameos only now and then: the cutter has polished the white layer. Most of the time Silz and all other cutters left it in its natural matte state.[/QUOTE]
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