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Message:: [QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 4489152, member: 5833"]OK, here's my thinking.  I can tell by the findings that this is a quality piece.  Whatever it is that is all over her - looks like she was bathed in maple syrup & left to dry! - is really obscuring the edges one would like to examine, but the margin is clean enough at the top & bottom to incline me to stone.  There does appear to be a maker's mark, also suggestive of stone.  Is the background layer kind of lavender grey & somewhat translucent?  That would bode well for chalcedony.  Even the fact that she has got that gunk all over nudges toward stone; that faint graininess I can detect with my teeth can hold foreign matter more easily than glass does.  I agree that it is quite nice, even if glass, & also in my mind is how beautiful French glass cameos can be, which is why I can't completely let go of that idea.  If you're prepared to accept her even if glass, I would say clean away. As to the signature , I don't know who it is, but in my own collection is this shell Melpomene: [ATTACH=full]391047[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]391048[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]