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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 8660476, member: 5833"]The more I look at it, & add in the details that the case doesn't close all the way & the glass just lies on top, the more I think the case originally held something else, a shell portrait cameo as like as not, & this was cobbled together after something happened to the original contents & an owner made the happy discovery that this large plaster impression just about fit, although not quite. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I see only the little space that accommodates the catch when it is pushed in to release it. But the gaps between the ring & the impression is part of what makes me think it is a marriage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 8660476, member: 5833"]The more I look at it, & add in the details that the case doesn't close all the way & the glass just lies on top, the more I think the case originally held something else, a shell portrait cameo as like as not, & this was cobbled together after something happened to the original contents & an owner made the happy discovery that this large plaster impression just about fit, although not quite. I see only the little space that accommodates the catch when it is pushed in to release it. But the gaps between the ring & the impression is part of what makes me think it is a marriage.[/QUOTE]
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