For the student of history or for a fine looking interpretation of something that is long since passed, cameo brooches are the perfect thing. If you are interested in the Victorian era culture, biblical images, or images representing mythic culture even in older than that, there is much to be said for these antique cameo brooches in which exist today. Even if you are not interested in the antique variety cameo brooch, there are a variety of images which are carved and depicted in cameo brooches which make a cameo broach a great gift for anybody who wants to look nice and at the same time have their outfits speak to someone or say something without saying a word.
Cameo brooches, rather than having a jeweled setting inside of them exist to where they carved a niche depicted up on the front. This may be an image of something that everybody he apparently has an idea about like Mary, Jesus, and John the Baptist; Hercules, or some other popular image from an era; or the image might be a little bit more obscure with something like Pan the flautist, Psyche of Cupid & Psyche, or some other exceptional cameo brooch.
If you are looking for vintage English cameo brooches then really you've come to the right place when you are searching on the World Wide Web. The Internet is a place where people come with everything they've ever had it ever wanted to get rid of but never had the inspiration to leave their home to do so. For this reason you may find a number remarkable looking cameo brooches which are genuine and relatively price but are being sold by somebody who hasn't a clue as to their value or even someone who has headed a praise but is trying to get rid of it for less than that.
Cameo brooches exist across cultures as well. There are Islamic cameo brooches which tell the tale that many of us are unfamiliar with in Western culture. If you are looking for a cameo brooch of any variety or from any culture than you should begin your search on the Internet. If you can't find it here than the chances are that you can't find it anywhere. However, if you have a local jewelry retailer or secondhand thrift shop or a use marketplace where thing is like cameo brooches may be liable to turn up in your hometown than that is another consideration for you to get out there and ask around. The more snooping that you do the more people you're likely to talk to and the more people you talk to the more information your going to come across.
