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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 289185, member: 5833&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman"><font size="6">There is another way to distinguish real from fake.&nbsp; No 2 carved cameos are ever completely alike, not even the same subject in the same material by the same hand.&nbsp; If any 2 are absolutely identical, line for line, then, no matter how convincing as coral, they have to be molded.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="6"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="6">Between the bracelet &amp; the cameo brooch (think we all agree the cabochons in the other brooch are glass) there are 6 cameos.&nbsp; While the smaller flanking ones have similarities - there is a pair that are mirror images of each other; &amp; there are the 2 with a crown of flowers that are basically the same - no 2 are identical.&nbsp; The 2 center cameos are quite different from each other.&nbsp; Makers of artificial cameos do not go to all this trouble.&nbsp; They may have a few designs, sometimes a right &amp; a left facing version of a profile, but not a stockpile of all different ones.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="6"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="6">I was not comfortable with the color as it appears in some picture, so prepared some photos of a few artificial pieces for comparison.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="6"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="6">[ATTACH]93431[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]93432[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]93433[/ATTACH] </font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="6"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="6">The material of the largest one has a weird optical property.&nbsp; To the eye, it is the same color as the one on its right; the camera sees it differently.&nbsp; The most sophisticated finding on any of them is the safety clasp on the largest one.&nbsp; The third photo shows the &#039;undercutting&#039; on that one.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="6"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="6">Most red coral has been dyed, &amp; some color will wash out when soaked, even in plain water.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure that milk would turn pink&nbsp; I have persuaded myself that the bracelet &amp; companion brooch are genuine coral.&nbsp; Here come the counter arguments.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="6"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="6">The smallest cameo in my artificial threesome is made of Celluloid or something very similar.&nbsp; Celluloid has been around for quite some time:</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="6"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="6"><a href="https://www.chemheritage.org/distillations/magazine/celluloid-the-eternal-substitute" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.chemheritage.org/distillations/magazine/celluloid-the-eternal-substitute" rel="nofollow">https://www.chemheritage.org/distillations/magazine/celluloid-the-eternal-substitute</a></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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