DECO CARVED NATURAL 16 x 13 mm RED CORAL BEADS graduated necklace

DECO 1920's-30's CARVED NATURAL RED CORAL BEADS & CHINA TRADE CARVED MALACHITE REPOUSSE SILVER CLASP graduated necklace

Length : 17", professionally cleaned and newly restrung on coral-color silk, with antique, very antique and vintage coral several smaller coral-color beads untested) graduating to the smallest, 4-1/2 mm diameter, knotted with wire-wrapped ends.

Nine Center Large Carved Natural Red Coral Beads : average 13 mm (irregular shapes and lengths to largest 16 mm) of fine grain and polish, natural untreated vivid red to salmon red, with typical 'canals' & other regularities of old natural coral, flanked by
8 spherical old 10mm beads (each with silver tube center) and smaller graduated antique to ancient beads of coral and similar-color materials.

Antique Silver China Trade Repousse Clasp (signed by Chinese character) 18 x 21 mm set with a deep green malachite well carved with a fish among waves; in silver collar of waves, scrolls & beads.

# 30110 ...........................................................................................SOLD