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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 573924, member: 5833&quot;]I found among my mother&#039;s things a small collection of vintage photographs, which she had no doubt bought on the assurance that they were collectable.&nbsp; Lots of sepia children, etc.&nbsp; At some point it hit me that they were all just people&#039;s family photos, no different, other than in age, from the ones in the couple of albums I have, filled mostly with pix of me as a baby &amp; young child.&nbsp; Will probably just end up in a landfill, as there is no one to leave them to who would want them, or those black &amp; white prints with deckled edges will seem so quaint to a collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s conceivable someone got rid of the cameo because cameos are just so old fashioned &amp; they didn&#039;t realize it is a portrait (a very well cut portrait) of a toddler who is probably a forebear of theirs.&nbsp;&nbsp; That happened in the case of one cameo in my collection.&nbsp; It had come down to a male descendant of a prominent Jewish banking family, most of whom fled Berlin ahead of the Nazis.&nbsp; One sister stayed behind, but committed suicide when she believed she was soon to be arrested.&nbsp; From the one photo that shows the 3 sisters together, I think the cameo is a portrait of the sister who stayed behind.&nbsp; Seller noted, but did not understand, the name engraved at the truncation of the bust.&nbsp; It is signed by Rudolph Otto, who did gem &amp; medal engraving for the imperial court in Berlin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]173515[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]173516[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The way it looked at time of sale may be part of why they did not appreciate value:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]173517[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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