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Regarding the dog collar...it would look lovely on our little black rescue Brussel Griffon, Lupanella!!!!! She would LOVE it. The third Art nouveau piece is, for me, beautiful. (I'd make it into a pin - so I could wear it on a winter coat.) Thank you thank you thank you - more, please!

Ahhhhh - thank you all for such great info! I wouldn't know anything about "varnishing". There is so much to learn. I would rather invest in lasting quality so that would steer me away from purchasing there. It is all so tempting :). I actually have gotten fond of ordering on line with...

I do not know if this question is okay - if not - please forgive me in advance and just ignor. T J Maxx has a vast selection of discounted jewelry and always has some major pearl pieces, does anyone have an opinion of this store's inventory? Thank you, Francesca

I must admit I like the Renaissance cameo better :) The third a bracelet orrrrrrr a hair ornament to pop a bun through?

Old diamonds are okay - new ones are a snore for sure...BUT, PEARLS - old, new, babies, growing, forming are Sooooo much more fascinating. Maybe they are a bunch of stagnate minds that can't think out of the box. You all think out of the SHELL!

Ooohhh - I've been catching up! The necklace transcends time! Cartier meets Cleopatra!!! I think Caitlin is right :) or maybe 1960's...

Popes from the different regions??? Tocany, etc.? Materials - enameled? seed pearls, rubies, gold, possibled crushed or powered stones? I've missed so much :( FUN!!!

Okie doke - Fabulous - as ALWAYS - anchors??? or carvels???? or gondolas :) I'll be on the road but will try to make sure I get the results and more more more!

Those are beautiful - luscious - wear them in good health!

My mother brought me to the cameo factories outside of Naples when I was a teenager, as many tourists are dropped off there for the cameos and inlaid wood arts. It was fascinating and amazing exactly what and how they do this. OF COURSE we BOUGHT cameos and a jewelry box - my mother was an...

I love this too, Caitlin - we are not alone. Anna, may we please have more pictures as a reward, Nerida and I would love that - and, you promised!!!! Thank you for so much fun - more, please...Francesca

Sostratos of Cnidus was a Greek architect, an envoy and held the title 'friend" in the Ptolemian/Alexandrian court. He designed and built the lighthouse on Pharos and, he dabbled :) in "...Augustan glyptic art, for instance a sardonyx cameo cut by Sostratos in the 1st century B.C...in Naples.

Cameos were reclaimed from the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii after the Big One in 79 AD."...amazing cameos were found, most of them adorned with designs representing...,as well as mythological themes. Cameos can be carved from onyx, agate, sardonyx and chalcedony - Sardonica shells are...

The reclining figures remind me of the statues of "Dawn" and "Dusk" by Michelangelo in Florence ? ? ? Hint? Is the cameo from a shell or something else???

I've been hunting on Google images - the jewelry is unbelievable!!!!! Ma dame CliClasp :) La chasse continue!!!!

Since I don't have much luck with attaching a picture I used it as my Avatar - the detail is amazing which of course you cannot see :(

Would you be my friend - you are tres chic!! Francesca (Francine)

I hope this comes through - it is a pendant caravel italian late 16th century - I just thought it was so wonderful.... Found it while STILL SEARCHING for information on the QUIZ!!!!!!