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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9903703, member: 5833&quot;]I&#039;m still pondering this.&nbsp; I do not have tortoise in my cameo collection.&nbsp; I did once have some tortoise hair combs around.&nbsp; And this summer had the opportunity to see &amp; feel a partial sea turtle shell.&nbsp; The stuff we call tortoiseshell I think is a keratin coating over the bones.&nbsp; On my turtles this covering corresponds to scutes, peels off in the exact same shapes.&nbsp; On the sea turtle there was a good sized stretch of uninterrupted material covering the entire back, and this was not a terribly large specimen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tortoise can be heated &amp; pressed into shapes.&nbsp; The way so many of these cameos are assembled of a background layer with a separate figure makes me think many of the figures are molded rather than carved.</p><p><br /></p><p>This I think was carved:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]497572[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]497573[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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