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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4552141, member: 5833&quot;]Is this a tintype?&nbsp; I associate them with these traveling cases.&nbsp; This shell cameo is in a leather case &amp; firmly glued down, no preserver or anything decorative, just a velvety covering on cardboard or similar:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/5c/bd/a0/5cbda014bf0aa0a9909fe0bb60ef85d2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Cameo portraits of women are so much less common that ones of men; non-royalty/nobility even rarer.&nbsp; Think I just have two: this one cased; the other one in a little collapsible easel.&nbsp; I imagine men taking them along when they traveled, as you might a photograph.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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