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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 439845, member: 5833&quot;]Well, this:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]154684[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>plus the depth of the frame, make me think this was once part of one of those brooches that swivel to show a cameo or other decorative thing on one side or the contents of a memento compartment on the other.&nbsp; With that bar across the back to hold the pin parts, it would not be able to swivel, so Bronwen Holmes deduces the current pin is a later addition.&nbsp; She further deduces, since the hinge &amp; the way the pin stem is attached to it are earlier Victorian, cameo could be 1830s-40s.&nbsp; [Edit: And cameos are not always set right when they are first bought.&nbsp; The mount &amp; the cameo are not necessarily the same age.]</p><p><br /></p><p>There is not likely ever going to be a way to know, but I would consider it a better than even chance that the cameo itself (certainly not the setting!) was cut in France.&nbsp; Despite his Italian name &amp; origins, Michelini was working in Paris by 1830.&nbsp; I can see GW becoming a widely reproduced cameo image there more readily than in Italy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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