LB offers Vintage Venetian glass Trade beads vintage Czech crystal bead Necklace

Lorraine’s Bijoux has on offer a Chunky Multi bead necklace. Vintage hand painted Tibetan ceramic beads are combined with Vintage Venetian glass Mille Fiore beads, Large Sea Glass, Large Brass Tibetan...

Lorraine’s Bijoux has on offer a Dramatic Large Bead necklace of Venetian glass tubular multicolored Beads, Crystal Rondelles, and a large handmade Indonesian centerpiece. Red glass...

Lorraine’s Bijoux has on offer a strand of multi colored vintage beads from Italy, Tibet, Africa etc. Large ‘Amber’ Discs, Mille Fiore glass tubes, African ceramic beads, and blown ...

This statement necklace consists of all vintage Bakelite components. Many shades of green and gold(in several different shapes) are strung on copper leather cord.Silver beads are use...

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...

Unusual Artisan French Necklace with Venetian Glass Beads from the 1980's. Large blown glass beads with black and white striations end in gilt floral caps and a hard necklet closure ...

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...

Lovely Venetian Murano Foiled Glass Beads from the 1950's. Metal foil strips are inserted into the glass beads during creation and are then spaced with filigree caps and Aurora crystal...