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all shell cameos, the first depicting a youth or possibly a Bacchante, with vine leaves and bunches of grapes throughout the hair and draped around the neck, length 5.1cm, period case; the second showing a medieval king grasping the hand of the knight kneeling before him, a page at his side, the scene framed by drapes on the left and a landscape with distant castle on the right, in an open scroll and bead mount, yellow metal tests for 9ct gold, clasp with safety catch, length 7.8cm, period case; the last of a pretty girl in the 18th century taste with hair piled high and a flower in it, a ringlet at the nape and pearls around her neck, plain narrow ropetwist mount, yellow metal stamped '9ct', clasp with safety catch, length 4.8cm, boxed (3)

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