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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 775043, member: 5833&quot;]James Tassie made a wildly successful business with impressions of engraved gems:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/gems/tassie/default.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/gems/tassie/default.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/gems/tassie/default.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A while before that, the Romans were taking impressions of engraved gems &amp; then making molds for reproductions in glass:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/cameotimescom/ancient-banded-glass-intaglios/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pinterest.com/cameotimescom/ancient-banded-glass-intaglios/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pinterest.com/cameotimescom/ancient-banded-glass-intaglios/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I will add that the Roman glass intaglios are much sharper in their lines than this cameo.&nbsp; It&#039;s not that a mold couldn&#039;t have been taken of a shell cameo to make KSW&#039;s cameo, one obviously was, it just wasn&#039;t one of those super flexible ones you can make now in your kitchen that even allow you to capture a little bit of undercutting.&nbsp; I showed this back on page 16, made using a mold taken from a stone cameo:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/hunk-3-png.122907/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>An experiment, we didn&#039;t know how to work properly with chocolate.&nbsp; The blurry hand is due to blurry carving on the original.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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