Maison Gripoix Hand Made Pate de Verre Beads

Unusual Madeleine Riviere rare Maison Gripoix bead and crystal collar. The two strand necklace has pendant drops which have hand poured mottled glass over each pate de verre topaz Gr...

French Poured Glass Faux Jade Beads from the 1950's. Double strand with hand made mottled Gripoix glass beads and spacers in variegated jade tones with gilt filigree clasp. 17.5" s...

Exceptional Gripoix cast glass rare Moghul toned bead necklace from the 1930's. Of large round ruby, pink oval ribbed pumpkin beads and unusual jade round tablet beads, hand wired fo...

Attractive and unusual French multi strand necklace composed of five strands of amber, topaz and citrine pate de verre vari sized round beads with natural wood bead stations. Nice ...

Coppola e Toppo necklace (Made in Italy) consisting of two sets of 5 rows of faceted crystal beads in brown and green; a green oval central piece connects with the 5 strands. The tw...

Ribbed crystal and goldtone beaded necklace with gold-plated clasp, circa 1970. Light scratches and tarnish.

Beautiful and unique necklace featuring faceted Aquaprase beads hand-strung and finished with a 22k yellow gold toggle clasp. Aquaprase is one of the most recently discovered gemston...

This antique rare hand-pressed-glass necklace features semi-translucent grape-green large beads that are capped with gilt-brass filigree. Based on the combination of bead seams, spring-ring clasp, and metal findings on the unmarked faux Chinese-jade necklace, it dates to the late Victorian period most likely from Western Europe. Around WWI, hand presses, which stamped molten glass into a mold to create a bead with a hole and a seam, were often used to produce costume jewelry as a cottage industry in Germany and the Czech region. This was while there was a lack of factory machine presses and finishing tumblers that used sand to polish out the seam lines. Another reason that the cloudy green beads can be identified as atypically hand-pressed is that they are more opaque and therefore harder and less prone to breaking during formation than fully-translucent glass, which was better suited for automated-machine pressing. Also the green beads are an unusual swirled color including white, which suggests that their production was more limited than machine-pressing would enable. Without the bead-seams, this necklace could be mistaken for one by Coco Chanel. Her 1920s couture...