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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9960403, member: 5833&quot;]He puts me in mind of this guy:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]500149[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>John Matthews, &#039;the Soda Fountain King&#039;, a Brit who introduced a technique for carbonation to the US.&nbsp; I have an intaglio ring seller claimed was sold to him by a descendant of this guy.&nbsp; The ring is no doubt Socrates, but suspect the family had it because of the resemblance.</p><p><br /></p><p>A modeling in wax was the first step in producing a cameo in the durable material James Tassie called &#039;enamel&#039;&nbsp; Have to think sometimes people felt satisfied with the wax &amp; saved themselves the cost of the fully realized thing.&nbsp; I think this is a private portrait &amp; that the background is sort of reconstituted amber.&nbsp; The gent looks right for the period:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/cameotimescom/cameo-portraits-of-victorian-gentlemen/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pinterest.com/cameotimescom/cameo-portraits-of-victorian-gentlemen/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pinterest.com/cameotimescom/cameo-portraits-of-victorian-gentlemen/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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