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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 867176, member: 5833"]When I went to their showroom to see these engraved gems in person</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.christies.com/masterpieces-in-miniature-ancient-28329.aspx?saletitle=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.christies.com/masterpieces-in-miniature-ancient-28329.aspx?saletitle=" rel="nofollow">https://www.christies.com/masterpieces-in-miniature-ancient-28329.aspx?saletitle=</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I was told there were more cameos in another gallery there. When I finally found them, they were a jumble of a couple hundred cameos & intaglios in a glass case, a few separated out on little stands as being possible antiquities, most of the rest things you see all the time on eBay. All collection of one person, whom I can only imagine was, or had cultivated a relationship with, someone in the business of scrapping precious metals. Preponderance were ring stone size. I was equally surprised they would handle such a stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 867176, member: 5833"]When I went to their showroom to see these engraved gems in person [URL]https://www.christies.com/masterpieces-in-miniature-ancient-28329.aspx?saletitle=[/URL] I was told there were more cameos in another gallery there. When I finally found them, they were a jumble of a couple hundred cameos & intaglios in a glass case, a few separated out on little stands as being possible antiquities, most of the rest things you see all the time on eBay. All collection of one person, whom I can only imagine was, or had cultivated a relationship with, someone in the business of scrapping precious metals. Preponderance were ring stone size. I was equally surprised they would handle such a stuff.[/QUOTE]
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