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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 289391, member: 5833&quot;]It is very nice to give some of them an outing where they can also meet some very nice people.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have many more cameos than intaglios, in part because intaglios are so much more difficult to display well.&nbsp; Even museum curators find them vexing to exhibit.&nbsp; Now &amp; then I do pick one up.&nbsp; I dithered a long time about this one, finally making a deal the seller reluctantly accepted as too little while I, knowing the setting was brass &amp; fairly sure the intaglio was glass, thought it was still too much.</p><p><br /></p><p>The brass setting cleaned up surprisingly well with toothpaste &amp; elbow grease.&nbsp; The intaglio, quite a lovely figure of Hope/Consolation in a pale shade of carnelian:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]93501[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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