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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4601269, member: 5833&quot;]You already have guidance on the cleaning.&nbsp; There is no problem cleaning a shell cameo itself with mild soap &amp; tepid water.&nbsp; Any issues arise from the setting, particularly if the design is such that water can get trapped in it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Always let a newly washed cameo air dry after toweling off before packing it away.&nbsp; You want to avoid <a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/reference/byne-s-disease" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/reference/byne-s-disease" rel="nofollow">Byne&#039;s &#039;disease&#039;</a>.&nbsp; The back of your lovely bacchante has some suspicious areas around the top edge you may want to give a bit of extra attention:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/img_20221023_094121_resized_20221023_094316201-jpg.408769/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A museum curator would probably be aghast at these simple measures, but if you are not charged with caring for a national treasure &amp; have no intention of bathing your cameos once a week whether they need it or not, any damage chlorinated water may do at the molecular level (&amp; I don&#039;t know that there is any) is really a small price to pay for the pleasure of seeing the cameo as it looked when it left the cutter&#039;s hand.&nbsp; BTW, museum curators are big on saliva for delicate cleaning.</p><p><br /></p><p>I concur with the observations made about the first, pretty lady, cameo, although, if it is a marriage, which it looks to be, someone got incredibly lucky in finding another shell cameo whose curvature follows the contours of the mount so well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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