necklace help

Looks similar.. I'm going to try and take better pics outside. ty all for your help

 

@Ratsy Brown

Nice! I wonder how people are identifying Gerda Lynggaard pieces? Some do have metal tags, but so far I haven't seen any non-metal pieces with a clear mark...

@Tricia Harr 's piece seems a little sedate and simplified compared to what I see of Lynggaard's work.

I think it would look fantastic with a dark pendant, modern or maybe not so modern.

This is one of my all-time favorite pieces of jewelry from the same era, probably. Very light materials, I think ebony, plastic and resin. Strung on Nylon with not nice barrel clasp. I'd love to have it restrung.

 

Don't quote me on that!

 

@scoutshouse

Not many i think, looking on ebay other sites it looks like there are lots of low priced fakes. Im only aware of the design as i had a similar bone one with a tag.

 

Monies history

 

very cold

 

Okay I tried the hot pin test and it had absolutely no effect I took some better photos hopefully you guys can see the Grains

 

Hi Tricia,
PLEASE stop using the hot pin test. I have seen it ruin many a piece. As well as burned hands and faces. Some types of celluloid will burst into fire when touched by a hot pin.
greg

 

Ty Greg, I was careful. I was pretty certain it wasn't plastic

 

I love a smiling necklace!

 

Hi Tricia,
We are trying to stamp out the hot pin test on everything!! It messes up so many things. I have seen numerous marks on all kinds of things. It is better to retire the test all together. I can not name the number of burns I have treated in the ER due to the test. It is an evasive damaging test. That is why we (the antique community) are really trying to put the word out.
greg

 

Some things you just can't control! lol

I was seeing the same thing

 

Then they are not resin, ivory, or bone.

Glass or stone.

 

that's strange bc I found this:

Ivory. Ivory is heavy and cold to the touch when you put it to your cheek. It will usually have ” Schreger lines.” These lines may be cross hatching or in circular rings. If you do the so called ‘hot needle’ test and press the tip of a hot needle to ivory surface, it will not press in and may slightly smell of bone.

 

I may be wrong.
Just tried it with my bangles. Peking glass and Jade VERY cold. Ivory not as cold, but you could say it was cold. Bakelite definitely not as cold.

 

There are no Schreger lines on the beads or fasteners, which may be two different materials.

Did you try kyra's suggestions?

 

The beads look like bone to me. Can't see the pendant bit well enough to form an opinion about it. I'm not seeing ivory here at all. Tricia, do you know what the 'tooth test' for pearls is? No matter how smooth pearls feel to the fingertips, ones that grew in a mollusk will feel grainy to your teeth (I sort of nibble with the edges of my top & bottom incisors) while artificial ones will feel absolutely smooth & glassy. I have found the same test is helpful in distinguishing all kinds of organic materials from artificial simulants. How cold something feels to the touch is largely a function of how smooth it is. Your teeth may tell you more than your fingers can. I can see this massive necklace feeling pretty heavy as a single item; does not mean individual beads would feel so weighty. If it were stone, think it would be burdensome to wear.

 

It is an amazing, mystifying piece.

 

I'm going to take better pic, as soon as the sun starts shining again but are these the lines your talking abbout?

 

No, those lines are consistent with both bone & sometimes ivory. Schreger lines are a distinctive pattern like crosshatching that show only in the cross section of a tusk.