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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: Roderick on March 30, 2014, 07:07:29 pm
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The two oval pieces seem to be lightweight (thin) gold, smaller one, you can see seam on the side, is this just the way they were made back then?
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It's not uncommon at all to find bezel settings that were handmade/hand-jigged with gold , esp with cameos , Roderick .
Often , rather fragile cameos would get cracked or chipped when inserting/installing them into cast-metal bezels , as the cast type are pretty much thicker-walled & take much more force to 'bend' around a setting .
The cost of buying manufactured 'findings' (metal items for mounting stones & etc.) led many cameo producers to just make their own , including cast-metal ones (usually from lost-wax method) .
The reverse is true today , in general , with manufactured findings .
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Well put regularJoe!
The backs of the 2 larger pieces appear to be shell from what I can see.