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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 413288, member: 5833&quot;]Not really, but what kind of custom do you want?&nbsp; I don&#039;t think he does shell, &amp; he seems like kind of a nut case, but this guy is always seeking business for custom hardstone&nbsp; work, portraits a specialty.&nbsp; When the carving is comparable, stone cameos are always valued over shell &amp; it&#039;s certainly more durable.&nbsp; Unless you particularly want shell, you might find out about his prices.&nbsp; You can find lots of his work on line.&nbsp; He sells on eBay.&nbsp; The prices he sets himself baffle me.&nbsp; Some pieces are very cheap, others much more pricey; generally I can&#039;t see the difference in quality of the work or value of material.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/portraitcameosite/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://sites.google.com/site/portraitcameosite/" rel="nofollow">https://sites.google.com/site/portraitcameosite/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t miss the section on how looking at cameos can improve your eyesight.&nbsp; His pieces are starting to seep into the secondary market as antiquities.</p><p><br /></p><p>Someone who does work in shell &amp; who I know is skilled is Aniello Pernice.&nbsp; I&#039;m not on Facebook.&nbsp; If you are:</p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Artist/Aniello-Pernice-cameos-138404323245623/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Artist/Aniello-Pernice-cameos-138404323245623/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Artist/Aniello-Pernice-cameos-138404323245623/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>He has a big following in Japan.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if he takes commissions, but that pink conch shell cameo on his FB page looks like a portrait to me.&nbsp; If your custom design is not a portrait, he is still who I would check out.&nbsp; He works in what I consider the cartoonish modern Italian style favored by the Japanese, but is capable of doing more classical looking pieces.&nbsp; I bought one from him on eBay:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]144036[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This seller has a lot of his work; don&#039;t know if they have any kind of official distribution deal with him.&nbsp; Most of what they have is in the style I don&#039;t like, but here&#039;s one more neoclassical:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/253306860820" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/253306860820" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/253306860820</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not aware of any cameo cutting activity in the US at all.&nbsp; If you want to tell me more of your thinking we can put our heads together.&nbsp; It should be possible to get it done.&nbsp; What I don&#039;t know is anyone, anywhere, whose work is the quality of the better cutters of the 18th &amp; 19th centuries, much less any that equals the best.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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