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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 433195, member: 5833&quot;]At the request of [USER=29]@Ownedbybear[/USER]&nbsp; Frankly, I bought this bracelet because I had hopes from the seller&#039;s blurry, underlit photos, and price was right to take a gamble.&nbsp; My hopes evaporated when he arrived, but he has his own kind of interest.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]151764[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Metal seems to have been gilt originally.&nbsp; Think the underlying metal is brass - smells like it - but it is so dark in places, I wonder.&nbsp; It is growing verdigris like moss, but I am concerned about whether the cameo could safely endure immersion in anything for very long, even plain water, and the cameo medallion is the part most in need of a clean.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had my fingers crossed for the cameo to be hardstone like <a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/4574271F-D042-461E-B81E-50DD6F8BBF38" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/4574271F-D042-461E-B81E-50DD6F8BBF38" rel="nofollow">this one</a>.&nbsp; Could not see in listing photos that background is not dark brown or black, it is sort of a deep marine blue with some brownish areas.&nbsp; Nor could I see all the little pock marks where small bubbles popped.&nbsp; Because of the way the brown has been applied to the laurel wreath, I am guessing the cameo is glass paste, or at least that touch is.&nbsp; The plug ugly gent is the Roman emperor Nero.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]151765[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]151766[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]151767[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>OBB &amp; I were discussing tongue &amp; box clasps.&nbsp; So here come some detail pix.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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