Retro 14k Diamond Cameo Dangle Earrings locket The carefully hand-carved and painted

The carefully hand-carved and painted image is incredibly detailed

Most often

Ditisheim first based the design for his Hamlet skull watch on the earlier "memento mori" motif (which translates to "remember that you must die")

continuing well into the 1920s

and is 1/8" thick

Retro 14k Diamond Cameo Dangle Earrings locket The carefully hand-carved and paintedItalian carvers began to use shells for their creations in the early 1880's. Most commonly, cameos portrayed the faces or images of Romanesque women. Most often they had upswept hairstyles and some were even adorned with jewelry. The cameos usually depicted the portrait of the "idealized" woman or god's and goddesses from mythology. These gorgeous shell cameo earrings are hand carved and from the Retro (ca1940s) era. Each oval shaped cameo is held