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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 455389, member: 5833&quot;]If I could edit it, I would tweak my post to be more specific: those are ways a <i>shell</i> cameo can be mounted.&nbsp; The great majority of hardstone cameos have tables that are flat enough not to require a bezel with any customization other than for thickness &amp; circumference.&nbsp; They usually do not rise &amp; fall.&nbsp; One of the things I look for in photos when trying to figure out whether a piece is carnelian-colored shell, resin or hardstone is a view from the edge that shows me whether the bezel looks saddle-shaped or level.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your blue cameo is ultrasonically cut, dyed agate.&nbsp; They are making these in Germany too, but, as evelyb30 pointed out, the marks on yours are Neapolitan.&nbsp; I can see more than the G, but not enough to make out a name.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]157293[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The figure with the cornucopia can be seen as Fortuna or Abundantia, the second being one form of the first.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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