Victorian Loose Hand Carved large Shell Cameo For Brooch Pendant diamond 10

Part of a large lot of cameos that I did get from my friend notated below. I have checked over them and will notate any noticeable cracks, stress cracks or chips in the cameos.

I will not clean their either, will leave that up to you to do. Please look at the pictures and let me know if you have any questions.

These are really neat items and most of these are from the Victorian era. Given their age these are in great shape and a classic antique item to incorporate how you would like to in your collection. He does get a lot of people who inherit items or who want to trade up their jewelry for something else. His main focus is the gems and precious metal content of the jewelry, watches, pendants. He does not really care about the sterling items and just send it off with other items to the refiners.

I do also get all of the costume items, and loose stones that are not diamonds. I also get watches and watch movements once he pops them out of the gold cases.

It is like a treasure hunt for me because it's always something different. Sad to look at all the stuff that comes in with all the memories that are attached to the items.

He said people just come in with the old jewelry boxes and say how much can they get for it. If you do get it, please clean it or not but the vintage items I think look better as original. I will point out any defaults in the items that I can tell but really look at the pictures for the condition.

I do appreciate the history of some of the items and hate that they would just end up in the melting point. There are so many Victorian items, the old Turquoise Navajo items, the engraved lockets, mourning broaches, signed vintage sterling broaches. It is like modern day treasuring hunting. Sorry for this because have been burned 1 too many times. Thank you again for looking- Andy.