Victorian Hermes Cameo Brooch bangles and rows of impossibly fine

and rows of impossibly fine millegrain running down each edge

"Apelike I all thinges imitate

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A striking modernist solitaire ring dating from the 1970s

Some small areas of loss to the matrix

Victorian Hermes Cameo Brooch bangles and rows of impossibly fineCool neoclassical cameo brooch depicting Greek god Hermes wearing his winged cap. Utilising a single piece of Bull's Mouth shell, the carver has used the white band in the shell for the subject and the orange brown band as the background. It's mounted in 9 carat gold with a Greek Key engraved border. Son of Zeus and Maia the Pleiad, Hermes (or Mercury to the Romans) used his famous winged sandals to travel between realms divine, mortal, and underworld