Five Amber Chunks, Pearl, Tribal Glass

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$185.00

Five Amber chunks, yellow opaque, of Baltic origin and cut out of the mid-1900s, with two white, slightly baroque Freshwater Pearls, and rare old handmade glass from a Nagaland necklace of the 19303/1940s, in a unique necklace created in Sydney.
45cms total necklace length, Silver end rings and spring clasp; professionally stranded in Sydney, on silk, knotted throughout.

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Five Amber Chunks, Pearl and Tribal red glass. The Amber is Baltic, “butterscotch” Amber, part of what was left over after a graduated long strand was shortened for a client wanting a particular length; 1950s and definitely originally out of one of the Baltic States. Each Amber bead is cut along six or more planes, irregular, no two beads the same, in a style uniquely Baltic, certainly neither English or German.
The Pearls are Freshwater, good white, reasonable lustre.
The old glass making up the rest of the above necklace has its origin in old 1930s/1940s ropey multi-strand necklaces out of Nagaland in the far north-east fastnesses of India, up on the Burmese border. Most of the little red beads were created around a white glass core, very labour-intensive but giving these little beads an attractive luminosity.