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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 436562, member: 5833&quot;]Thanks, fig, for bringing that pic forward.&nbsp; It was the first thing I was going to check.&nbsp; Even if it is a hairline, it is not fresh.&nbsp; If it were, it would look whiter, not browner.&nbsp; Suspect what was felt was exactly what was first thought, a slight shift in the setting.&nbsp; (As a side note on that, as long as the cameo is in no danger of falling out, I think a bezel setting that is ever so slightly loose is preferable to one that is snug.&nbsp; The combination of drying with age &amp; relentless bezel pressure is what I believe causes shell cameos to develop multiple parallel hairlines the way some of them do.)</p><p><br /></p><p>If you cannot feel it when you drag the edge of a fingernail over it, more likely to be just a natural part of how the shell formed.&nbsp; It&#039;s a mollusk.&nbsp; What d&#039;ya want, perfection?&nbsp; In your next to last photo, where some light shines through from behind, I see no evidence of a fissure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Natural: nothing you can do will change it.&nbsp; Damage: anything you do more likely to cause additional harm.&nbsp; You did not notice it when you were looking her over with an eye to buying; no one else with an eye to admiring is going to notice at all.&nbsp; It is not affecting the integrity of the piece.&nbsp; Wear her, go out &amp; be admired, both of you.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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