Attractive Beaded Necklace with Victorian Enamel Buckle

Miriam Haskell multi strand faux white and blue moonstone pate de verre bead necklace. Russian gilt butterfly clasp closure with intricate double flori form pendant of hand sewn, fau...

Elegant Art Deco French Pottery and Paste Link Necklace from the 1920's. Deep ombre glazed blue hand made pottery beads are spaced with silverplate l...

Unusual Artisan French Necklace with Venetian Glass Beads from the 1980's. Large blown glass beads with black and white striations end in gilt floral caps and a hard necklet closure ...

Ethnic Inspired Charm Necklace or belt from the 1980's. Antique gold finish on brass with semiprecious beads of carnelian, amythest and turquoise. 45" x .75". 1980s USA.

DETAILS • unsigned • gold tone glass beads • vintage designer necklace MEASUREMENTS • 32" long CONDITION • very good vintage condit...

This antique rare hand-pressed-glass necklace features semi-translucent grape-green large beads that are capped with gilt-brass filigree. Based on the combination of bead seams, spring-ring clasp, and metal findings on the unmarked faux Chinese-jade necklace, it dates to the late Victorian period most likely from Western Europe. Around WWI, hand presses, which stamped molten glass into a mold to create a bead with a hole and a seam, were often used to produce costume jewelry as a cottage industry in Germany and the Czech region. This was while there was a lack of factory machine presses and finishing tumblers that used sand to polish out the seam lines. Another reason that the cloudy green beads can be identified as atypically hand-pressed is that they are more opaque and therefore harder and less prone to breaking during formation than fully-translucent glass, which was better suited for automated-machine pressing. Also the green beads are an unusual swirled color including white, which suggests that their production was more limited than machine-pressing would enable. Without the bead-seams, this necklace could be mistaken for one by Coco Chanel. Her 1920s couture...

A rare Vintage paste collar necklace. It is made in the Victorian style, very heavy and substantial with an incredible design! Made in Germany by Paul Stikklelorum, the compact are...

Lorraine’s Bijoux has on offer a Vintage Venetian glass Trade beads with a central glass elbow shaped bead. These beads were made to trade to other countries in exchange for goods an...