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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 5839046, member: 5833&quot;]Hard to know about this.&nbsp; The lot was not uncontested &amp; was not cheap, but it was the first interesting thing I could vaguely afford that I had seen in a long time.&nbsp; The lot was actually 2 cameos, described by the auction house as:</p><p><br /></p><p>Large 19thC Oval Cameo depicting a man and</p><p>woman in yellow metal mount with safety chain</p><p>6cm x 5cm and a 19thC Oval Three graces cameo</p><p>5cm x 4cm</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]417136[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I would not have been interested in the Shakespeare &amp; his Muse cameo on its own.&nbsp; And I have no idea how anyone could have seen the other cameo as depicting the Three Graces.&nbsp; They made no representation about the metal of the genii cameo, but seems to be gold: finely wrought &amp; not a speck of oxidation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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