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<p>[QUOTE="mirana, post: 9599659, member: 79705"]Beautiful!! I love cameos with wonderfully thought out and executed hair tendrils, to say nothing of that finely done face. It's a wonder she is not signed. Did we identify her? Is she Nike?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcedony" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcedony" rel="nofollow">Chalcedony</a> includes a lot of stones, one of which is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx" rel="nofollow">onyx</a>. To make matters more complex, people use onyx to also describe stones of a color type, and agate that has been color-treated. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Haha now you've ruined yourself for collecting any cameos inferior to this one! It makes for a more manageable collection I would imagine... I too started with an above average specimen. While I do have below or average pieces, they are all of the tiny type on rings, earrings, and a bracelet that were less than $20/ea so that I can have some inexpensive casual wearable pieces I'm not as fussed about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mirana, post: 9599659, member: 79705"]Beautiful!! I love cameos with wonderfully thought out and executed hair tendrils, to say nothing of that finely done face. It's a wonder she is not signed. Did we identify her? Is she Nike? [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcedony']Chalcedony[/URL] includes a lot of stones, one of which is [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx']onyx[/URL]. To make matters more complex, people use onyx to also describe stones of a color type, and agate that has been color-treated. :confused: Haha now you've ruined yourself for collecting any cameos inferior to this one! It makes for a more manageable collection I would imagine... I too started with an above average specimen. While I do have below or average pieces, they are all of the tiny type on rings, earrings, and a bracelet that were less than $20/ea so that I can have some inexpensive casual wearable pieces I'm not as fussed about.[/QUOTE]
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