Mid-20th Century Gold & Crystal Bead Necklace

24K Gold Trojan Inspired Evil Eye Beaded Necklace The Gold accents on the necklace are inspired by Ancient Trojan Era The Eyes are produced from the base mate...

Made from natural tektite stone which is formed from a meteorite impact on earth. A one of a kind collection of 9 such extraordinary pieces, each piece has been inlaid in 24K gold an...

This stunning 9-11mm Tahitian pearl necklace features 18 inches of lustrous dark grey pearls, each beautifully complemented by a 14kt white gold clasp. The pearls exhibit a high to v...

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...