Cameo Whatz It? Photo Gallery

Cameos are beautiful and timeless.  Whether they depict a woman, child, man, Biblical scene, a scene from Greek or Roman mythology or an "everyday" pictorial they will endure forever.  Quality is dictated by the intricacy of the carving, the substance from which the cameo was carved, age, and precious or non precious metal setting.

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Celluloid in Bakelite Cameo

Ceres goddess of the harvest (often depicted with wheat and fruit in her hair). Info courtesy of: tunatofu. Photo courtesy of: ridi2buy

Coral Cameo

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Glass Cameo

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Hardstone Cameo

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Shell Cameo - Queen Conch Shell

Apollo. Info courtesy of: tunatofu. Photo courtesy of: ridi2buy

Shell Cameo

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Shell Cameo

A belt buckle. Diana is the huntress in Greek mythology (see the bow?) but her twin is Apollo and that doesnt look like a guy (plus where's his lyre?) could be Flora and Fauna (flowers and animals) nymphs of the forest in Roman tales. Info courtesy of: tunatofu. Photo courtesy of: ridi2buy

Shell Cameo

Water nymph. Info courtesy of: tunatofu. Photo courtesy of: ridi2buy

Cameo

Depicts "The 3 Graces" (Faith, Hope, Charity). Info courtesy of: tunatofu. Photo courtesy of: ridi2buy

Turquoise Cameo

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Cameo Ring

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Cameo Ring

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Cameo Ring

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Cameo

Signed J Mouhe or Mouche from France. Circa 1860-1880. Photo courtesy of: jlw8036

Cameo

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Cameo

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Cameo Front

Photo courtesy of: jeannedarc2000

Cameo Back

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Cameo Front

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Cameo Back

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Cameo Front

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Cameo Back

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Cameo Ring

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Cameo - Glass

Ceres goddess of the harvest (also often depicted with wheat and fruit in her hair). Info courtesy of: ~Belle. Photo courtesy of: rumor_has_it

Ceres is part of an ancient myth that helps explain the cycles of seasonal change. Hades (Pluto) god of the underworld, kidnapped Persephone, Ceres' daughter. A single mother, Ceres felt abandoned by her daughter's absence. Persephone ate seven pomegranate seeds, an action that could have sealed her fate to live in the underworld forever.

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But Ceres, being a shrewd mother, was able to negotiate with Hades for her daughter's custody. Persephone would spend half of the year with Hades in the underworld and half of the year living with her mother.

During the time Persephone was in the underworld, Ceres was so grief-stricken that she refused to allow anything on Earth to be beautiful or fruitful, and these were the winter months. When Ceres had her daughter to look after, she was happy and the earth brought forth crops.