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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 948373, member: 5833&quot;]She also comes in coral:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]203564[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]203570[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And silvered:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]203572[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This last one is a little box, which hopeful sellers often describe as amber, tortoise or horn.&nbsp; I finally managed to get one at a price that wasn&#039;t too bad.&nbsp; I see them all the time, so wanted to handle one.&nbsp; How anyone could mistake it for anything but some kind of plastic...</p><p><br /></p><p>This summer went to a crafts show I used to attend more regularly &amp; caught up with a guy whom I hadn&#039;t seen in a while.&nbsp; The first time I saw his work, big silver cuff bracelets, which sell for hundreds of dollars each, I gave him grief for using resin cameos like Ponytail Girl when he could be using real ones without cutting too far into his profits.&nbsp; I got a somewhat grumpy reaction, can&#039;t blame him much.&nbsp; It was either another day of that show or the same show later in the year that I brought a few loose cameos to him &amp; sold him one.</p><p><br /></p><p>This summer many of his bracelets featured large, very well cut shell cameos.&nbsp; When he finished with a customer, I asked how the cameos were doing for him.&nbsp; He didn&#039;t quite remember me at first, reminded him I was the person who convinced him to try real ones.&nbsp; They are doing great for him.&nbsp; When he goes to trade jewellery shows the first thing he looks for are cameos suitable for his work.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bring him up because he also had a bracelet with our girl here (I think of her as Nouveau Lady).&nbsp; I checked with him that he knew she was artificial; it was clear he wasn&#039;t quite sure.&nbsp; She makes a handsome bracelet though; she&#039;s large enough for the scale of his pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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