Long Bohemian Gilt Metal Carved Crystal Bead Necklace

Ribbed crystal and goldtone beaded necklace with gold-plated clasp, circa 1970. Light scratches and tarnish.

Scassi goldtone rope necklace surrounding Lucite cylinders and square rhinestones. The clasp has a rhinestone center surrounded by seven faux-pearls. Center rhinestone piece, 4.25"L....

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 long and beautiful diamond necklace! It features 36.72 carats of round brilliant cut diamonds along with rose cut diamonds adding contrast and style to the piece. Measuring in at 3...