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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 444006, member: 5833&quot;]The friend who sent it to me was collecting cameos long before I was &amp; she had every opportunity to exam it directly.&nbsp; She concluded it is resin, in large part because she has ideas about how shell can &amp; cannot look, such as the notion that a white patch might show on one side or the other but not go all the way through, as well as being convinced she has seen resin pieces that do look like they have growth lines.</p><p><br /></p><p>I, on the other hand, do not detect anything about it that would rule out shell &amp; have yet to see an artificial piece that would have that mottled look when magnified.&nbsp; Have seen artificial coral that is very good for color &amp; even seems to have the random blackened pits you sometimes see on natural coral, but, again, never any so complexly made that there is the appearance of growth lines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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