Glass/Stone bead necklaces

Hey all! I usually dont pick jewelry like this.... but the estate i was at had many fine and unique items. I really liked the shades of blue and green on some of them. I think some of them are sea glass? any information is much appreciated. If you require any other photos, i can put more up.

 

nice collection.....
the blue strand , last 2 pics , look like trade beads found on the Northwest Coast.

 

Some of the others look like African recycled/powder glass beads. The green oblongs are Italian chevron beads. The orange and silver ones could be something and might not.

 

i thought the green were melon beads....?

 

Chevron melon beads depending on who is describing them ....... https://wanderingbull.com/archives/chevron-melon-beads/

 

This was another one from the same house

 

Italian trade beads made for the African market, and what looks like a West African bronze pendant. Or a wanna-be anyway.

 

The weight of the pendant is definetly heavy enough to be bronze.

 

Left to right: paste & paste, Bohemian glass made 18--1900-1930, can't tell (the beads are too small for me to see), hand painted ceramic and silver-toned metal, Krobo powder (?) with Bohemian or African blue glass, Hebron (lamp wound, anywhere from late 1700s to late 1800s) with small Czech beads, bakelite and silver (would need to test both), green Venetian chevron melons (would need to see the perforation for layers) c. 1920s, faceted carnelian (NICE!!!), green Bohemian moon beads, last, have no ideas other than stone or clay. Would need more.
The pendant is cast brass or bronze, would have to feel, scratch and weigh, Venetian cased millefiori (as opposed to bundled) tubes and, since I see black cores, likely mid-1800s, and are those seeds in between or do they feel/look like glass (crumb glass)?

 

Brava!

 

Excellent information! Thank you so much! I have one more small bag, maybe nothing.....but worth a check. The flat black and white feel like glass. Top left wooden....The others....cold to the touch

 

Correction.... the top left ones are not wooden.

 

Are they carved seeds? Lightly inscribed? If not and they're formed, perhaps handmade rose petal beads? Break one so I can see the inside?

Top right, old green stone, hand cut & polished. Very nice.
The 'big four," celery jade at the top, bakelite to the left and right, soapstone, hand-carved, on the bottom.
The pendant: Looks like jade to me. You keep the black and white; I'm drooling over the rest!

 

The bronze face pendant doesn't look to me to be African, at least not older African. See, e.g., Africa Adorned, by Angela Fisher. It looks to me to be more Asian, Indonesian, perhaps even something made by an artist in the local foundry. Unsure there's ever a way to know for sure. Is the wire sterling?