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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 611560, member: 5833&quot;]Congratulations all!&nbsp; Yes, being sold as stone, but glass it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, the first glaring thing is the color.&nbsp; It is not too far off conch shell, a material that is frequently, erroneously, identified as coral.&nbsp; No one fell for coral.&nbsp; Hooray!&nbsp; While conch shell pink is slightly bluish compared to angel skin coral, it doesn&#039;t go so close to purple as the lady in question does, while, for some reason, older pink glass often looks like this.&nbsp; Opaque pink stone is not common generally, so not seen often in cameos.&nbsp; This Hercules is an exception:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]179808[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]179809[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But our lady shows no layering.</p><p><br /></p><p>She is overly shiny for conch shell.&nbsp; The pitting on the back is not entirely inconsistent with shell:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://cameotimes.com/images/Materials/ConchShell/ConchDamageBack.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>But, taken with all the other evidence, we can indeed write off the ones we&#039;re looking at as exploded bubbles in a former liquid.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bravi! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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