I appreciate everyone's comments. I'm staying with my granddaughter and dont have much time right now to write, but will try to respond to a...
I posted photos of this coral necklace a few months ago and received a lot of helpful information. I was planning to hang onto it for a while, but...
Thank you Figtree3. I really appreciate your positive comments.
This is just kind of a "feeling" I have when I look at your necklace -- late-1950s sack dress era (I made a sack dress for myself when I was in...
Thank you, Lucille. I appreciate your kind words.
Thank you so much, Kyratango and Any Jewelry for your compliments. I don't wear necklaces, so this one will just be stored with other...
Here's the re-worked necklace. Not sure if the dangle looks right, but I wanted to use all 10 glass beads and have something larger in the center....
Thank you Kyratango, I had never heard that term (just dragon's breath for something similar to saphiret glass). I googled art nouveau dragon's...
Thank you AJ -- I was looking at the Satin Glass section in Jargstorf's “Baubles, Buttons, and, Beads” book (pages 137-138), and those examples...
Thank you so much, Any Jewelry, for expertly clarifying several things about this necklace. Your examples of Peking Glass are amazing. I began to...
I agree that there is something missing. What I would like to do is make a longer necklace by adding brass chain and/or other glass and maybe...
It's probably not that noticeable in the photos, but the beads should be graduated in size, but one side of the necklace has smaller beads except...
Thank you Hollyblue -- the Chinese sterling clasp does look almost identical, but the filigree detail on mine looks slightly different when I look...
I recently bought this necklace at a thrift store because of the beads, but then discovered the clasp (which obviously isn’t original to the...
I rented space in an antique mall (in a town of 16,000) for 6 months last year and did well selling mainly mid-century stuff and vintage...
I wonder if the band was recycled from a Navajo bracelet, buckle, button, etc. which would explain why there are partial stampings, but I'm not an...
Because I've been selling mainly vintage clothing for more than 10 years I don't have as many regrets as I used to, but a few weeks ago I passed...
I haven't seen anything exactly like this, but I do have a few vintage celluloid hat pins/ornaments from the 30s-40s and suspect that's when your...
Another possibility occurred to me -- Frank Hess was Miriam Haskell's head designer until 1960 when he left and briefly worked for the KRAMER...
I don't know anything about this necklace, but just wanted to add that Alexis Bittar is a man.
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