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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 7251886, member: 5833&quot;]It seems like sellers could barely give away cameo portraits of unidentified contemporary people, not so long ago.&nbsp; They didn&#039;t interest me either until I bought a signed hardstone one of a woman.&nbsp; Guess that made me take a harder look at this category of work &amp; I realized some of it was really quite good, &amp; of course there is the cult of the Saulinis.&nbsp; I started buying ones I liked.&nbsp; I swear I drove the market up.&nbsp; Sorry all.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of mine are here &amp; there on my 2 Pinterest boards.&nbsp; She was my first, signed by Rudolph Otto:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/49/e7/51/49e751ce949778c246f0f0318e9e149d.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This one is intriguing: signed by Michelini; mount has a Soviet hallmark; obviously a real person:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/03/96/84/03968447aba0ec4f0a96729f4af66283.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This one is glass &amp; over time I have come across a couple of other copies, but the lady&#039;s history is sad &amp; a bit bizarre.&nbsp; Mary Meredith, Countess Ferrers, later Lady Campbell.&nbsp; The sadistic earl was the last peer to be hanged in Britain.&nbsp; You would think she deserved peace after that, but died in a fire at the Campbell&#039;s country estate.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/6c/2e/58/6c2e58eec4ba490b68277c150ff79006.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have a handful of signed portraits of men, but the 2 I like best are anonymous.&nbsp; One is this guy, who just looks like he would be nice to meet</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/8c/57/f7/8c57f72e311d027eb0731776c77f6460.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>and the other is this gent, mainly for the mustache</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/42/12/a3/4212a3b03a3e8cb7dbc8902d7f6c80af.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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