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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 497102, member: 36"]These look like Japanese glass to be. With any luck they smell like money. </p><p><br /></p><p>In this case, the clues are a) no knots between beads and b) those corroded brass findings. If knots are present, the beads can still be artificial, but older real pearls are knotted. Those corroded knot covers are pretty well diagnostic for costume; in that era real ones would have precious metal findings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 497102, member: 36"]These look like Japanese glass to be. With any luck they smell like money. In this case, the clues are a) no knots between beads and b) those corroded brass findings. If knots are present, the beads can still be artificial, but older real pearls are knotted. Those corroded knot covers are pretty well diagnostic for costume; in that era real ones would have precious metal findings.[/QUOTE]
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