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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4372836, member: 5833&quot;]She is a bacchante, and, as kyratango has told you, cut in conch shell.&nbsp; Please study &amp; learn to recognize the difference from this (maybe you should show it to the person who sold it to you too):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/reference/materials-guide?start=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/reference/materials-guide?start=1" rel="nofollow">https://cameotimes.com/index.php/reference/materials-guide?start=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There definitely appears to be an A; not so sure about the scratches below it.&nbsp; You would think someone capable of cutting the cameo could incise his&nbsp; mark with more control.&nbsp; Conch shell cameos are only very rarely signed.&nbsp; As far as I know, I only have 1 in my collection.&nbsp; Dealers sometimes put inventory or price code marks on the back.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have a cutter to put with that A; it is likely to remain a mystery.</p><p><br /></p><p>The green lines in the seller&#039;s terrible photo of the front look like a problem with the resolution of the image.&nbsp; They are just an artifact of the photo processing &amp; have nothing to do with the cameo.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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