US1891248A - Cameo - Google Patents

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M. STAMER Dec. 20, 1932.

CAMEO Filed Feb. 19. 1932 57 2? m an ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 20, 1932 UNETED STATES MORRIS STAMER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY CAMEO Application filed February 18, 1932. Serial No. 593,950.

This invention relates generally to jewelry and the like and has particular reference to cameos for rings, breast-plates and similar devices of personal adornment.

To this end precious or semi-precious materials, or stones, have in the past been used, in cut cameos, in which the cameo portion has been utilized as an ornamental stone in precious or semi-precious metal settings of various kinds, such settings being in accord with the kind of jewelry desired. In such form the cameos have been out so that the entire ornamental design thereon, of whatever nature, has been completely formed of the material in which the cameo has been out.

In the present improvement the surface of the material of which the cameo is cut forms only a part of the ornamental face, there being a portion of the cut cameo left out of the designed ornamental face thereof, and a sup plemental ornamental piece fitted to the incomplete cut cameo design to complete the said design.

Such supple-mental ornamental piece may be preferably of gold, silver, or other metal or material so designed as to its ornamental aspect as to be a part of the completed design of the cameo.

Means are provided for positively combining the cameo and its supplemental piece into a unitary structure, such means including, in the present instance, a blind rivet and a seating cut in the cameo design with a corresponding seating face onthe supplemental piece, as will be later described in detail.

With the above indicated objects in view, and others which will hereinafter appear, the invention resides in certain novel constructions and arrangements of parts, the essential features of which are herein clearly described, and fully illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of my cameo;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 3 is a section like that shown in Fig.

2, but showing the space left in the cameo for the metal insert; and

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Figs. 2 and 3 showing another form of seat cut into the stone.

Similar characters of reference are applied to corresponding parts throughout the several views.

' By way of illustration in the present instance, a cameo stone is shown as having a 6 flat base portion 10, on the top plane of which is shown the similitude of a human face 11 in profile which is in relief upon the face of base 10.

A. second profile, that of a helmeted warrior 1:2, is cut in relief upon said base 10, and is so arranged that it partially eclipses the first profile 11 and is cut in a plane somewhat higher than the plane of profile 11.

In some well known forms of stone used for cameos, the stone, in its natural form is composed of thin strata of various natural colorings, onyx and gypsum having in their natural state such stratifications and in the cutting of the cameos thereon, these designs are so cut, for instance, as to leave the face of the base 10 exposed in one colored stratum 10, the superposed profile 11, cut from and exposed in another'natural colored stratum 11 and the second profile 12, cut from and exposed in a third natural and different colored stratum 12, Fig. 3. Thus the various strata of these natural stones are utilized to enhance the beauty of the cameo. In some instances the cameo may be artificially colored.

As a further means to create a novel effect on such cameo, a portion of the cut design left out of the stone as at 13, Fig. 3, in the present. instance, this cut away portion constitutes the helmet 14 of the warrior, Fig. 1, and the helmet portion. struck up or cast of metal, or similar material, polished and engraved is introduced in the gap formed by the cut away portion 13, to complete the unitary design of the helmeted warrior.

In 1 it will be noted that the face 15 of the warrior profile is contoured. and that, in effect it follows the contour of the edge of the helmet 14-. Thus the outline of the gap 13, the bottom face 13 of which is flat, as in Fig. 3, has its side face 15 profiled or cut to suit one edge of the helmet, thereby to cause the adjacent meeting faces of the stone and the helmet to register as to their coacting designs and, further to act as a key or bond to firmly hold the supplemental piece 14 in rigid seated position.

Further the contacting side faces of the stone and the helmet, as at 15, Figs. 2 and 3 may be at an angle, or may be straight as in Fi 4.

Thus the supplemental ornamental piece 14 not only completes the design motif of the ornamentally cut stone relief 12, but advantage is taken of certain lines of thedesign to create a keying means to hold the supplemental and cameo portions in registration.

As a means for afiixing the supplemental piece 1% rigidly to its place of assembly, the base 10 is drilled as at 16, Fig. 2, and a rivet 17, or similar extension of the supplemental piece 14 is entered into the hole 16 and headed over. Thus the riveting of the supplemental piece 14 is accomplished so that it does not show on the ornamental face thereof.

I claim 1. A cameo including a base having a partial design portion in relief thereon, said design portion being integral with said base and projecting therefrom, and a supplemental relief section fitted to said design portion.

2. A cameo including a flat stone base, an ornamental. portion in relief on said base and projecting therefrom, a supplemental ornamental relief portion forming a coacting ornamental section for said first noted portion and disposed on the same plane as the latter.

3. A cameo including a flat base, an ornamental port-ion in relief on said base and projecting therefrom, a supplemental ornamen tal relief portion forming a coacting ornamental section for said first noted portion and disposed on the same plane as the latter, and means for attaching and registering said supplemental relief portion to the ornamental relief portion and said base.

4. A cameo having a base upon which a part of a design in relief has been cut, a separate supplemental piece having another portion of said design and means for fixedly connecting said base and piece together to form a single unitary design in relief on said base.

Signed at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, this 17th day of February, A. D. 1932.

MORRIS STAMER.

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