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Beautiful Cameo Carved From Shell. Is It OOAK? RARE?

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    Posted 10 years ago

    stwillia76
    (137 items)

    I have a wonderful Cameo carved from shell. From an estate in Florida. How how would you think it is? I can't find another one like it. Are these rare?

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    1. cameosleuth cameosleuth, 10 years ago
      Someone loved this enough to salvage a helmet shell cameo that broke around the edges by having all the surrounding background removed, leaving just the very well carved figure. She is of a type common in the 1930s. This is a better example. Sadly, instead of being mounted in a custom setting that would have held her in place with prongs around the edges, someone had a very inexpensive type of pin back attached directly into the cameo, leaving those rivet heads on the front.

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