Belonged to Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez

2025.1

MAKER: Undetermined. Costume jewelry. DATE / PERIOD: Not marked; mid-20th century (estimated) for faceted-glass bead-and-link costume jewelry. ORIGIN: Not established from the object. The faceted pressed/cut glass beads are of a kind made in several centers (the Czech/Bohemian industry prominent among them), and the bead-and-tombak-link construction resembles the documented Jablonec-region method seen in the reference volume — so a Czechoslovak origin is a possibility to weigh, but not established.

MATERIALS: Faceted glass beads (translucent peach/pink and smoky amethyst) and opaque white marbled beads (glass, possibly imitating stone such as howlite/marble); gold-tone base-metal wire links and clasp. Bead-and-eye-pin link assembly. TECHNIQUES: Beads threaded on wire eye-pins, looped ends joined into a continuous chain; finished with a stamped gold-tone tab clasp. Bead-and-link construction (more durable than single-thread stringing).

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This is a single-strand bead-and-link necklace combining faceted peach and smoky-amethyst glass with opaque white marbled beads on gold-tone wire links — mid-century costume jewelry of the same wire-linked construction as the cobalt-cube necklace recorded earlier (and distinct from the strung multi-strand necklaces). Faceted pressed/cut glass beads of this kind were produced in several glass industries (the Czech/Bohemian among the most important), and the bead-and-metal-link construction parallels the Jablonec-region "pressed glass beads on tombak links" method documented in the Museum of Glass and Jewellery reference volume — so a Czechoslovak origin is worth weighing.