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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 507232, member: 5833&quot;]The difference between the artisanal jewellers of a place like Naples and the sophisticated houses of Rome and other capital cities.&nbsp; Some Greek souvenir brooches from as late as the 1940s were made with the trombone clasps long out of use elsewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Like a patent, hinges, clasps, etc., give a <i>terminus post quem</i>, the point in time after which a piece has to have been made.&nbsp; So do hairstyles.&nbsp; Nothing prevents their being made any time later.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ah, but someone knocking out cameos in the 1950s would not have given her that slightly <i>zaftig</i>, very womanly chin.&nbsp; And the nose is nothing like as extreme as was seen later.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The technique of leaving a very fine layer of white on the background, instead of clearing it all right down to the brown, and then incising some of the design into it is also characteristic of this period.&nbsp; This cutter has done an especially fine job of using light &amp; shadow to create a much greater illusion of depth than the shell affords in reality.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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