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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PepperAnna, post: 4495476, member: 17332&quot;][USER=5833]@Bronwen[/USER] Another gentleman for your cameo board and a signature you may not have:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]392578[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]392580[/ATTACH] </p><p>The very nice description is from the auction site, although to me it looks like a shell cameo, not an agate cameo.&nbsp; Agate carved. Oval, very finely cut portrait of the Crown Prince and later King Maximilian II Joseph of Bavaria, looking to the right. The portrait whitish on a smooth agate background, signed below the representation &quot;C. VOIGT&quot;. Works by Carl Voigt are rare. Note 1:Carl Friedrich Voigt was born in Berlin in 1800, began an apprenticeship with the engraver Vollgold and continued his education in drawing in the evening. After his time at Vollgold, he went to the Royal Mint in Berlin and learned die cutting under Daniel Friedrich Loos. Here he also cut the relief portrait in ivory of King Frederick William III. Already at the age of 19 he was appointed First Medalist of the Prussian Royal Mint. At the age of 25 he moved to London, for which he received a scholarship that had been awarded to him because of his special achievements in modeling. There he cut the much admired stamp for a medal of Lord Elton. From London he went via Paris and Milan to Rome, where he was trained in stone cutting with Girometti. Here he married the miniature painter Teresa Fioroni. In Rome in 1829 he was visited by King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who appreciated his work so much that he appointed him as first coin medalist at the Royal Mint in Munich. Here he created taler pieces on behalf of the king for special events during the reign of the king and worked from 1832 also for King Otto of Greece. Voigt&#039;s work was greatly influenced by Thorwaldsen, with whom he was associated for life. Many of the small German states had the dies for their coins cut by Voigt. In addition, he performed numerous commemorative medals, especially on the art activity of King Ludwig I, but also on Thorwaldsen, Rauch, Cornelius, Kaulbach and Herzo[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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