A Treasured Gift from a Special Friend

With the news we hear today, it is very easy to forget that for all the bad, the world is full of lovely surprises and kind people.

I have made some wonderful, extremely special and lasting friendships with certain people I have met through Flickr. Some I have been fortunate enough to meet in person, whilst others I have yet to have that pleasure, and yet I have the same affinity and closeness to them.

This beautiful cameo comes from one of the latter variety of my treasured Flickr friends. I have never met her in person, but we bonded so easily and chat all the time. I treasure her friendship for the precious gift it is. Much was my surprise when this Christmas I received this gorgeous cameo from her as a gift. She knows that I love to wear lapel pins, and she thought I might like it, and indeed I do! I absolutely love it, and I have already worn it several times since Christmas Day when I opened the green, velvet lined box it comes in.

Set in gold, this cameo was a gift to my friend from her stepfather. She is, I believe, hand carved from translucent shell and the style of her places her anywhere between the 1920s and the 1960s. Set in gold, she can be worn as I wear her, as a brooch, or as a pendant via a small loop discreetly added at the top just behind the band of gold.

I am so grateful to my dear, treasured friend, for thinking of me so fondly to have sent me such a precious and thought filled gift.

I decided to display her with two strands of my Grandmother\'s Mikimoto pearls from the 1930s.

I was inspired to take this photo by another Flick friend, hehaden, who recently uploaded an image of a cameo without its gold setting against a porcelain background. You can see it here www.flickr.com/photos/hellie55/52663746814/in/photostream/ or in the first comment below. I was so taken with the colours, that I decided to use a similar background with colours complimentary to the cameo. In this case it is an Eighteenth Century hand painted Japanese Kutani Ware plate that was given by my Great Aunt when I was fourteen years old and first started collecting decorative porcelain seriously. Thank you for inspiring me hehaden.

Taken on: February 3, 2023

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