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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4485754, member: 5833&quot;]Hi, Dory, what a great catch!&nbsp; You can&#039;t gauge by her clothing since she is not in the garb of the period when she was made.&nbsp; All that grapevine draped on &amp; around her indicates that she is a maenad/bacchante, one of the female followers of the wine god Dionysus/Bacchus, so she&#039;s out of the mythical past.</p><p><br /></p><p>A better clue to age are the findings, all the bits of hardware on the back.&nbsp; She is solidly Victorian, although I would say later 19th century rather than earlier.&nbsp; She does not have the overlong pin of her predecessors, which may have functioned as a simple form of safety device by running the tip of the pin into the fabric after fixing it in the clasp&nbsp; She does have an attachment loop for a guard chain.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cut in helmet shell, Naples or Rome, probably set in England.</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. - You&#039;re always welcome to add cameos to <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/">CAMEOS: Show &amp; Tell or Ask &amp; Answer</a> but there are many separate threads like this one.&nbsp; And who can blame you for wanting to show her off?&nbsp; There is sort of a sister thread, in case <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameo-signature-help-needed.38228/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameo-signature-help-needed.38228/">Cameo Signature Help Needed</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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