Vintage gold carved glass beaded necklace

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

DETAILS • unsigned • gold tone glass beads • vintage designer necklace MEASUREMENTS • 16.75" long CONDITION • very good vintage con...

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

DETAILS • unsigned • gold tone with glass stones • contemporary designer necklace MEASUREMENTS • CONDITION • very good condition with minimal signs of wear Sku 42 ❤️❤...

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

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...

This is a charming 14k yellow gold bead necklace from the 1940s. The necklace measures 15 inches in length and 11mm in width. The necklace weighs 41...

ANONYMOUS Ancient necklace composed of glass beads and pearly beads. No signature. Condition: Good general condition Measurements: Length: 39 cm (15.35") ...