GERARD YOSCA vintage signed bronze tone glass beads designer necklace

DETAILS • signed KJL KENNETH JAY LANE • gold tone with resin beads • vintage designer necklace MEASUREMENTS • CONDITION • very good vintage condition with minimal signs of ...

DETAILS • unsigned • gold tone with faux stones • vintage designer necklace MEASUREMENTS • CONDITION • very good vintage condition with minimal signs of wear Sku 33 ...

DETAILS • signed CAMEE • gold tone with glass stones • vintage designer necklace MEASUREMENTS • CONDITION • very good vintage condition with minimal signs of wear Sku ...

DETAILS • signed JOAN RIVERS • gold tone with glass beads • vintage designer necklace MEASUREMENTS • CONDITION • very good vintage condition with minimal signs of wear S...

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...

Rare Louis Rousselet glamorous Multi strand necklace. Composed of four strands of graduated beads of silver flashed jet and pate de verre faux matrix turquoise beads. Barbaric clasp ...

Glittering crystal glass beaded graduated necklace ca 1960 The elegant necklace is designed with three graduated rows of pale lavender milky opal color elongated glass beads Juxta...

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...