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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 752660, member: 5833&quot;]Everyone is correct that it is an assembled piece using a geode slice (just a particular agate formation) for the background.&nbsp; She is not as sloppily glued as she appears.&nbsp; Those bits of brown here &amp; there at the edges are the remnants of the brown helmet shell background.&nbsp; She has been carefully chipped out of what was probably a broken background &amp; given new life this way.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have shown one before (I think?) that is salvaged shell on glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]189769[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The interesting thing about this one is that the glass undulates just as shell often does, leading me to believe a mold was made from the intact shell piece before separating out the figures.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is also shell, attached to a chalcedony blank:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]189770[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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