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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marko, post: 166660, member: 210&quot;]Thanks, evelyb.&nbsp; I have one cinnabar piece, a bracelet, I bought in San Francisco in 1988 in Chinatown.&nbsp; I don&#039;t find much here.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I tried doing a community yard sale yesterday, almost died from the heat and humidity.&nbsp; There was a nice curio cabinet for TEN DOLLARS that nobody wanted.&nbsp; My problem is getting it from point A to point B, then storage.&nbsp; Oh well.</p><p><br /></p><p>I went out today to an outdoor antique show near the ocean, not too bad.&nbsp; I found this cameo, trying to figure out an age and material.&nbsp; I am guessing Victorian, and gold plated?&nbsp; It is not gold, tested it on a scratch stone, but somebody else messed with the back.&nbsp; I can&#039;t tell if it has crazing or natural growth lines, but for $18, I was not leaving without it.&nbsp; The thing is rather HUGE, too, which you can&#039;t see in the pictures.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]45700[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]45701[/ATTACH] </p><p>The spot on the lower right was cleaned with a sunshine cloth... I tried to clean the left side (which looked like that anyway) with a light silver polishing.&nbsp; The sunshine cloth takes the other stuff off, but it needs a lot of work and I am not doing it, don&#039;t want to damage the cameo.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next up, I always am a sucker for garnet and pearl jewelry since all my siblings and me were born in June (pearls) and my dad was born in January (garnets.) The earring stems are marked 830S, and there is a much smaller mark on them I cannot read, maybe a maker&#039;s mark.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]45704[/ATTACH] </p><p>Usual back posts....never saw these kinds before.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]45705[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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