Amber Centre, Rare Bead Necklace. To create a bead necklace in a seemingly random sequence of beads, while still maintaining a certain balance, is more complicated than it might appear, certainly infinitely more complicated than, say, producing a strand of beads homogeneous and uniform in size, or even graduated in size. It is also more fun to do, akin to play, really.
The Amber Centre bead is Baltic in origin, an old bead from a Polish strand of the 1960s; the old Tribal Silver and the orange native-cut Sth Indian Corals would be from the same period, while the deep red and dark blue glass, and the few yellow glass, are older, from the 1930s/1940s, Tribal Nagaland out of multi-strand ropes of these beads, ropes of 3 and 4cms thickness, the sort of massively labour-intensive work that will never be repeated.
The Turquoise, two Pearls and single pink Coral are relatively new, certainly with no more than a few years age. The lighter blue glass beads are very old, Maja Pahit, South Java, dating back centuries, and are probably the oldest components in the above strand, though the two flat two-tone Agate discs flanking the centre Amber, said to have been excavated in Balkh in northern Afghanistan some years back,  could also be centuries old.
The necklace hangs well; professionally strung in Sydney, on silk and knotted here and there throughout, it has a pleasant weight at about 10 grams.