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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joan, post: 829293, member: 5398&quot;]Gorgeous necklace. Since the Aurora Borealis finish on glass beads wasn&#039;t developed by Swarovsky until the mid-1950s, your necklace wouldn&#039;t be any older than that. However, the other beads look like what I&#039;ve seen referred to as Art Deco Bohemian/Czech foil glass beads. But after AJ mentioned she didn&#039;t find anything similar in her Jargstorff&#039;s &quot;Baubles, Buttons and Beads&quot; book, I looked through my copy and didn&#039;t find any either. So now I&#039;m wondering if they&#039;re actually Venetian.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other key words used on eBay for that type of bead include Lava Glass (I suppose because of the darker opaque areas), Fire Glass, and occasionally Fire Opal Glass (because of their similarity to Mexican fire opals, which sometimes are cut to include non-sparkly opaque areas -- though real Mexican fire opals usually have mainly red/orange &quot;fire&quot;). </p><p><br /></p><p>A few years ago I sold a necklace with somewhat similar beads that I listed as a Vintage Bohemian Art Deco Opalescent Foil Glass Bead Necklace. Maybe I was wrong about it being Bohemian.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]193816[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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