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besides classical and other groups, heads of celebrated 

 personages, armorial bearings, &c., Wedgwood produced a 

 complete double set of cyphers, " one consisting of all the 

 combinations of tvco letters, and the other of all the single 

 letters, which last," he says, " are now much used, especially 

 for notes. " 



Portraits of individuals were also cleverly produced in 

 seals, as well as in medallions, &c. ; and it is interesting to 

 be enabled to give my readers the cost at which such objects 

 were made. A portrait of the individual would be modelled 

 in wax, by Flaxman, or Hackwood, or some other artist 

 employed by Wedgwood, in the same manner as those I 

 have already spoken of and engraved in connection with 

 Flaxman's bills. The cost of this model in wax, made 

 from the life, would be, to the party himself, from three to 

 five guineas, according to the size. From this a mould 

 would be taken, as I have already described, and finished 

 cameos produced, of proper size for brooches, at 7s. 6d. 

 each ; for rings or seals, at 5s. each ; and as medallions, at 

 10s. d. each. As the same wax model would, of course, 

 as I have explained, serve for all these various sizes (the 

 reductions being produced by successive firings), and as not 

 less than ten copies were made in any one way, it will be 

 seen that the total cost to the customer of ten six-inch 

 medallions of his or her portrait, including the original wax 

 model, would be ten guineas, and for rings, &c., five-and-a- 

 half guineas. The following is Josiah Wedgwood's notice 

 respecting these cameo portraits : 



" It may be proper in this place to observe, that if gentlemen or 

 ladies choose to have models of themselves, families, or friends, 

 made in wax, or cut in stones of proper sizes for seals, rings, lockets, 

 or bracelets, they may have as many durable copies of those models 

 as they please, either in cameo or intaglio, for any of the above 

 purposes, at a moderate expense; and this nation is at present 

 happy in the possession of several artists of distinguished merit, as 

 engravers and modellers, who are capable of executing these fine 

 works with great delicacy and precision. If the nobility and gentry 



