Early 20th Century Rope Necklaces

Antique Rope Link Chain 15ct Gold Circa 1920s Discover the timeless elegance of this stunning 1920s solid rope chain, meticulously crafted from 15ct yellow gold. The chain feature...

Truly extraordinary describes the remarkable yards of fourteen karat 18K yellow gold that creates this antique double cable chain necklace. Measuring seventy eight (78) inches long, ...

An antique Victorian long chain. This is a beautiful long chain created in England during the Victorian period, back in the 1890-1900. The unusual twenty-nine inches chain has been ...

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...

Early Maison Gripoix 1920s sautoir. Elegantly composed of crystal pate de verre teardrop bead clusters and twisted braided lengths of micro faux seed pearls. Long flapper length. Ex...

A unique vintage find, that pairs extraordinary necklace length and unique materials to create a one-of-a-kind piece. Sterling silver nugget shaped beads that are washed in yellow g...

Lovely Art Deco Maison Gripoix rope necklace of micro faux seed pearls. The upper strands of the necklace are softly twisted and braided while lower bib falls in loose draped strands...