Featured Amber Necklace & Bracelet

The elastic on the bracelet is like an IQ puzzle as it appears to be one continuous loop. I can't find a knot anywhere. Suspect I'm having a less than intelligent day somehow.
Even if it's tricky it needs doing as it's tight on my 10yr old daughter.
I'm going to investigate suitable spacers for it.

 

I guess we can ignore the 450,000 tons exported to the UK between between 1850 and 1950 then?

 

Unfortunately, and I will whisper this so as not to offend the kauri gum lovers of the world, those tons will be found in varnish on the tons of wooden floors, furniture etc Britain manufactured during that period. Much of which has already been sanded down and replaced, or simply landed on the skip.
Just like centuries old cedars were turned into pencils which will never be recognized as revered trees, etc. That is human consumption. Good for the economy though.

 

Maybe you will find an old bracelet or necklace with round amber beads which you can use?
If you can't find amber, you could go for another Art Deco look with round onyx or black glass beads maybe?

 

Have you noticed that pencils can bend these days? Wood has been replaced with some sort of wood-looking composite plasticized compound stuff. So stop chewing on your pencils folks unless you like the taste of @whatevertheheckitis

 

The clasp was already used in the Art Deco period, but as you said, it is still used. It always looks good.
The style of the necklace is typical of what has been made in the Eastern Baltic (Soviet Union and post-SU) from the 1970s onward. They began to move away from the pressed beads to a raw amber look, and used natural oval and teardrop shapes as dangles.

 

Thanks for your reply, @Any Jewelry !

 

This bracelet that I posted in the Finds thread a few months ago is the same in respect to not having any visible knot in the elastic. I haven't looked closely enough to see whether there is at least a place where a machine might have fused the ends of the elastic together. But there must be.

By the way, this one is not amber. The beads test in the quartz range. They are cool to the touch and have a little weight to them.

 

Gorgeous colour, Fig.

 

I liked it because it reminded me of amber, or butterscotch.