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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 414155, member: 5833&quot;]Strictly personal preference.&nbsp; There are no differences in things like durability.&nbsp; For myself, I think I would go with sardonyx shell, which produces a darker brown background.&nbsp; You don&#039;t see it as much, &amp; carnelian shell can be quite a glaring shade of orange, you don&#039;t know what you might get.</p><p><br /></p><p>This may give you a feel for the difference in effect (ignore that the first photo is not a good one):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]144362[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]144363[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The darker ground feels more serious to me, more the way cameos looked before the Victorian era.&nbsp; This is utterly subjective, of course.&nbsp; It&#039;s an aesthetic choice.&nbsp; The first cameo I ever bought has sort of a taupe background.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, that divine little girl grew into a knockout of a woman.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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