Gold Carved Cameo Pendant Copper Bronze Lady Mourning Vintage Antique Style NR!

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Hi there, I am selling everything in my world. I need desperately to raise money. I just found out termites were eating my house. I have a lot of things that I don't need. I thought it would be a good time to downsize my world, and hopefully make some money to buy new walls.This is a bronze vintage cameo pendant, I think it is a mourning cameo, worn during mourning periods, when a loved one dies that is close to you. In the Victorian times they would wear something symbolizing the loss, and they were carved out of jet, which is a lightweight black stone. and this is a lightweight black stone, but this one is all bronze or brass or gold colored.But it is really beautiful. It is made of gold metal, although I don't know what type probably some type of bronze.The pendant measures 45 mm by 32 mm by 3 mm, and weighs 36.85 carats , which is 7.37 grams, and it is really cool.I love it , but I need to make money, so there you go - no reserve, cheap shipping, starting bid under a buck!!! Can't beat it Be sure to check out the large pictures below! I will put a Wikipedia entry about this below.If you have anymore questions, just ask. I am sure I am leaving something out.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cameo (carving) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article needs additional citations for verification .Please help improve this article by adding reliable references . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (September 2007) Eagle Cameo, Roman 27 B.C. Two-layered onyx Renaissance cameo of an African king, 16th century, Italy(?) Cameo is a method of carving , or an object such as an engraved gem , item of jewellery or vessel made in this manner. It nearly always features a raised (positive) relief image; contrast with intaglio , which has a negative image. Originally, and still in discussing historical work, cameo only referred to works where the relief image was of a contrasting colour to the background; this was achieved by carefully carving a piece of material with a flat plane where two contrasting colours met, removing all the first colour except for the image to leave a contrasting background.Today the term may be used very loosely for objects with no colour contrast, and other, metaphorical, terms have developed, such as cameo appearance . This derives from another generalized meaning that has developed, the cameo as an image of a head in an oval frame in any medium, such as a photograph. Contents [ hide ] 1 Technique 2 History 2.1 Roman glass cameos 2.2 Shell cameos 2.3 Cameo subjects 2.4 Notable historic cameos 3 Modern cameos 3.1 Ultrasonic machine carved cameos 3.2 Hand-worked portrait cameos 3.3 Shell cameos 3.4 Cameo proof coins 4 References 5 Bibliography 6 External links Technique Ancient and Renaissance cameos were made from semi-precious gemstones , especially the various types of onyx and agate , and any other stones with a flat plane where two contrasting colours meet; these are "hardstone" cameos. In cheaper modern work, shell and glass are more common. Glass cameo vessels, such as the famous Portland Vase , were also developed by the Romans.Modern cameos can be produced by setting a carved relief, such as a portrait, onto a background of a contrasting colour. This is called an assembled cameo. Alternately, a cameo can be carved by the traditional, but far more difficult, method directly out of a material with integral layers or banding, such as (banded) agate or layered glass, where different layers have different colours.Sometimes dyes are used to enhance these colours. History Main article: Engraved gem Woman wearing a cameo at her throat, on a high lace collar in the Edwardian style. Cameos are often worn as jewelry , but in ancient times were mainly used for signet rings , although the largest examples were proba... read more

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