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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 491637, member: 5833&quot;]It&#039;s hard to disentangle the meaningful marks from the scratches.&nbsp; The blue outlines strokes I think are part of the signature; the green upstroke I am less certain about; the end is just so jumbled.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]162680[/ATTACH] </p><p>There is a contemporary cutter named Cirillo &amp; the art is sometimes passed down in families.&nbsp; There are just so many artisans who only worked in shell that were never documented.&nbsp; I think this piece is just as good as the majority of shell portraits cut by the Saulinis, whose main claim to fame seems to be that they signed legibly &amp; on the obverse, in the manner of hardstone engravers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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