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Message:: [QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 289350, member: 5833"]Thanks to you too, Cluttered.  The aggravating thing is how very many gorgeous cameos are not signed.  We can't imagine being so self-effacing.  Then there are the ones that are signed but illegibly, or legible, but nothing more can be learned about the person.  Many 19th century cameo cutters got their start working in shell, but if they never moved on to produce signed work in stone, there is very little, if any, documentation to be found.Sometimes you get lucky.  This is my most recent acquisition: shell, no setting, not the best condition, but top notch carving & signed. [ATTACH=full]93488[/ATTACH] I was making myself crazy trying to read the signature until I rubbed a little cocoa in for contrast.[ATTACH=full]93489[/ATTACH] I could find George Gammon Adams, but only as a sculptor and medalist, no mention of cameos, although did find wax models for portrait medals that are very like cameos.  And then, seek and ye shall find:  <a href="http:// http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=815123001&objectId=63101&partId=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http:// http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=815123001&objectId=63101&partId=1" rel="nofollow"> http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=815123001&objectId=63101&partId=1</a>While I had a degree of confidence that my Adams was George from comparing the cameo signature to ones on medals, did not feel it was certain until I could confirm that Adams did sometimes turn his hand to cameos.  Such are my little satisfactions.  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":writer:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]

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