Featured Costume glass necklace and bracelet

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by KSW, May 4, 2019.

  1. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Do you think this bracelet and necklace are recognisable as made by any particular designer or just run of the mill?
    They strike me as being a cut above modern tat in quality. Base metal as obviously some wear to the gold colour. Pretty faceted glass and quite heavy especially the bracelet.
    No marks any where I can see.
    Any ideas please?. The photo looks like they are scratched but it’s reflection.
    Thankyou :)
    (Bracelet links are 3cm wide. 19cm long. Necklace 39cm and links 1.75cm wide.)
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  2. Lucille.b

    Lucille.b Well-Known Member

    Vintage for sure.

    The glass is pretty. How does the necklace hook together, I see the hook but can't see in the photo what it attaches too. Is there an extender or is it just a loop of some kind?

    This isn't making me think instantly of a certain designer, but maybe someone else will have luck. Occasionally with parures the maker was signed on the earrings only. But also could be made by a lesser known company that didn't sign their pieces.

    Perhaps the glass will be a clue, wait for others.
     
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  3. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    The hook goes onto a tiny little ring exactly the same as the one the hook is attached to so nothing useful sadly.
     
  4. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    That glass is typical of 1960s stuff. Art glass made to look like agate. Might be German with those hooks.
     
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  5. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Porphyr glass, if memory serves. The glass is German, almost certainly. The settings could be from anywhere, and I agree with Bear on the 60s. The length around ought to give you a good idea of the age. The longer it is the newer it is.
     
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  6. Lucille.b

    Lucille.b Well-Known Member

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  7. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Cheers - I've had brooches and bits signed Germany with that glass.
     
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  8. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Thankyou, that's very helpful.
    It's quite short,just goes round my neck above my collar bones.
    ......off to google Porphry glass....:pompous:
     
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  9. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Thanks OBB :)
     
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  10. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Thanks that is exactly it. Although it has its uses I do hate Pinterests broken links!.
    West Germany dates it too doesn't it.
     
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  11. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Pennino with that little pine cone tag?
    German glass, assembled in USA and landed in Blighty?!
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  12. KSW

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  13. Lucille.b

    Lucille.b Well-Known Member

    Well found! So yours is just missing the extender.
     
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  14. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    That’s why it’s a bit tight!. I’ll rob one off a broken necklace. The word Porphyr was the clue :)
     
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  15. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Aha. Yeah, the pine cone is Pennino.
     
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  16. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Given what the words porphyry & porphyria mean in the world of rocks & medicine, wonder how it became applied to this streaked glass. The stone is deep red to dark purple & speckled.
     
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  17. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    In glass it refers to that streaky "eye" in the center. I have a chunk of the stone sitting here somewhere. No clue how it connects to the disease.
     
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