Madeleine Riviere Rare Gripoix Glass Collar

Striking Maison Gripoix Hand Made Pate de Verre Beads from the 1950's. Opaline glass is used for beads in opal, amythest and emerald all with opaline cast and a martele hammered fini...

Early Miriam Haskell 1930s Gilt and Venetian Glass Collar, of signature Russian Gilt baroque leaves and flowerheads, hand made crystal flowers, and green patterned Venetian beads. Ha...

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...

A very fine retro glass bead and sterling silver choker necklace. With alternating clear 13mm and black faceted glass beads. Each bead has a sterling bar...