Cameo Brooch
Cameo Brooch
Whats the best bargain you have ever gotten in your life?
I bought a lamp that I thought was nice from my local op shop and I have just seen it on ebay for 259 dollars and I only paid 15. What have you gotten cheap or discounted or found? My friend bought a cameo brooch it was really ugly and she had it valued and it was worth 450 dollars and she had paid 55.
I went to this little kinda rugged, but laid-back DANK boutique in charleston...and i walked in the store with my sisters, and it was really cool. It was like a hippie/gypsie/retro whatever kind of shop, with vintage shit everywhere. It was like closing when we pulled up, the guy had just put the closed sign up, but we kinda begged him to let us in so he did. He was black, wearing a blonde afro wigg, with like a long dress.He was really nice though. i picked out a shitload of clothes, and knicknacks and shoes, and bracelets, and hair bands, and sunglasses, and he let us take our time gettin stuff.while we picked out what we wanted, we were talking to him, and laughing and joking, and so when we got to the register, he was like, "okay, ill ring ya'll up, but ya'll dont have to pay for any of this.." i was liike YEAHHHHHHHHHH! it was really cool.Got a TON of stuff.
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 Victorian Cameo Brooch 18K Gold Silver Diamonds  US $1,249.99
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 Vintage RARE ST JOSEPH Necklace Bracelet Pin Brooch Set Crystal Aurum Rhinestone US $895.50
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 Antique Cameo Brooch 14KT White Gold Diamond US $675.00 |
 ANTIQUE VICTORIAN LARGE GOLD CAMEO PIERROT BROOCH 1850 US $568.80
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 CAMEO BROOCH 14K ELEGANT SPECTACULAR VINTAGE US $545.00
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 Huge Chunky Vintage Carved Bakelite Cameo Brooch Pin High Celluloid Cameo Center US $500.00
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 Art Nouveau 1918 Hard Stone Cameo Brooch Pendant 14K US $499.95
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 Vintage 10K Cameo Brooch Gold Filigree Shell CAR 573 US $419.00
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 VINTAGE LADIES 10K SOLID Y GOLD CAMEO BROOCH PENDANT US $410.55
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 VICTORIAN 14K GOLD LARGE CARVED SHELL CAMEO BROOCH PIN PENDANT W DIAMONDS US $399.99
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 Large Art Nouveau Raised Image Lava Cameo Brooch US $399.99
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 BEAUTIFUL ANTIQUE VICTORIAN AMETHYST COLOR CAMEO GLASS PIN OR BROOCH US $399.99
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 Vintage Exceptional 14 Kt Shell Cameo Pin Brooch 5789D Gift Box Free Shipping US $399.95
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 FINEST VTG STANLEY HAGLER ST GIELAR BEADED CAMEO BROOCH US $395.00
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 OLD EARLYVICTORIAN GOLD ENAMEL CAMEO LOCKET BROOCH 1841 US $395.00
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 VICTORIAN ROSE GOLD GILT CARVED SHELL CAMEO BROOCH US $379.20
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 Estate Cameo Brooch 14kt White Gold with Shell DesignSALE SALE US $399.99
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 Antique Victorian Large Carved Shell Cameo Brooch Pin US $349.99
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 Vintage ANTIQUE Double Face Filigree CAMEO Brooch Pin US $349.99
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 LARGE ANTIQUE GOLD GILT CARVED SHELL CAMEO BROOCH US $347.60
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 14K White Gold Shell Cameo Brooch Pendant 2 Diamonds US $344.00
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 Extraordinary Unusual Beautiful Shell Cameo Dangle Locket Brooch 15kt Gold 53r US $325.99
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 ANTIQUE BRASS CARVED JET GLASS MOURNING CAMEO BRACELET OLD BROOCH D PARURE US $325.00
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 VICTORIAN CARVED GUTTA PERCHA CAMEO MOURNING BLACK NECKLACE PENDANT BROOCH US $314.99
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 VICTORIAN SILVER PLATED CARVED SHELL CAMEO BROOCH US $308.10
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 Vintage 1930s 40s Carved Black Butterscotch BAKELITE Cameo Brooch PIN US $299.99
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Little Masterpieces At Olympia International Art
The International Art and Antiques Fair is held each year at the Olympia Exhibition Hall, Kensington, west London. I attended, as I do every year, excited, hoping to find some small treasure. My interest is Chinese art and antiques, which I have bought and sold, and collected for more than thirty years. I try to visit most of the Art and Antiques fairs in the UK and some in Europe and the US each year.
From a Chinese art point of view Olympia was a disappointment for me. Although I saw a few interesting pieces, the objects I would have liked to buy were too expensive or restored. I was resigned to leaving empty-handed. Not only empty-handed, disappointed, because I had not been really excited by anything I had seen and I had walked miles. Exhausted I headed for a coffee shop.
Unable to find a seat in the coffee shop, I sat on a long bench opposite a stand selling silver. Although I occasionally buy Chinese silver to sell, I have never been interested in collecting silver, always seeing it as too bright and needing too much attention to keep it that way. I rarely look at silver dealers stands, but as I sipped my coffee I looked at the objects this dealer was selling and quickly realised that many of them were much more than just silver. Gilded, silver beakers, tankards and large covered cups that looked like pineapples mingled with religious objects: a gilded monstrance, a rock crystal cross and various reliquaries. None of these objects were ordinary and they were all eighteenth century or earlier.
The man selling these items lifted various pieces out of the cabinets, cheerfully, giving information in excellent English with an accent I did not recognise. I looked at the name above the stand: Peter Szuhay - B59.
Somebody asked the price of a beautiful rhino-horn cup with a gilded, silver foot. I know nothing about European rhino-horn works of art, so when the potential buyer left and I had finished my coffee, I asked Mr Szuhay if he would show it to me.
We chatted about the cup, now standing between us on top of a glass showcase filled with jewellery and I discover that Mr Szuhay is Hungarian, has lived in London for over thirty years and has a permanent stand in Grays Antique Market, Davies Street, in London's West End, near Bond Street underground station. He is a leading expert on Continental silver and works of art. He showed me various beautiful pieces early silver, mentioning the famous towns of Augsburg and Nuremberg, of which, even a Chinese art dealer has heard. He also has an interest in later silver and he showed me some 19th century Russian silver and a magnificent 20th century silver fish-server by the Scandinavian master silversmith, Georg Jensen.
I noticed that, what I had initially dismissed as jewellery, in the showcase beneath the cup, was in fact an array of beautifully carved stone cameos and intaglios. I am used to seeing shells carved into portraits, mounted in brooches, usually from Italy and dating from the mid-nineteenth century until quite recently, but these pieces were something quite different and very exciting.
By now we were on first name terms and Peter showed me a selection of these carved stones, dating from the late nineteenth century back to Rome in the third century AD. Exquisite, tiny works of art, some signed by sixteenth century master carvers. We were interrupted and while Peter sold a Chinese silver box, which I had not even noticed was there and I walked to the other side of the stand, where he had a second jewellery showcase.
Here he was displaying, what appeared to be, a group of much more ordinary gold signet rings. But, when he returned to talk to me again, Peter put me straight. They were actually English Medieval rings of gold and silver. Some were signet rings others were guild rings or iconography rings, worn by pilgrims and etched with icons of Saint Christopher etc. There were sixteenth and seventeenth century Posy rings: mostly plain gold bands bearing sentiments etched around the inside of the ring, in Olde English. This was an area of collecting I had never considered. I have never had much interest in jewellery as adornment, but Peter's jewellery was a lot more than that - it was sculpture, design and graphic art and everything had a story and a history attached. These small masterpieces were a revelation to me.
I did not buy anything from Peter Szuhay at Olympia, although he did make my day and gave me something to write about. I did however promise to visit his shop in Grays Antique Market and I will, and I'm sure I will buy something from him soon. Peter also offers a selection of his stock at:www.peterszuhay.co.uk
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