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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 432068, member: 5833&quot;]<img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/cameo-jpg.151344/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Welcome to Antiquers, Kimbert.&nbsp; True, your cameo is &#039;pretty ordinary&#039;, but more than ordinarily pretty, and definitely wearable.&nbsp; I hope you do wear her sometimes.&nbsp; Cameos go in and out of fashion.&nbsp; Gauging by activity of eBay, looks like they may be coming back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dating cameos can be difficult.&nbsp; Often one has to judge more by the setting than by the cameo itself.&nbsp; Generically, yours is a pretty lady, the predominant type since the 1920s.&nbsp; Anonymous representatives of feminine beauty, not the storied goddesses and nymphs of earlier times.&nbsp; One rule of thumb with these is that the cameo can not be any older than the hairstyle of the lady.&nbsp; Another is that cameo cutters did not keep up to the fashion minute, so the ladies are typically behind the times.&nbsp; While your piece may have a romantic, Victorian sensibility, it is most likely from the 1950s.&nbsp; Enjoy her![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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