Featured Mother of Pearl Necklace

I wonder if this necklace has some age as it looks as if it might do.
Made of Mother of Pearl and faux pearls stitched onto glass discs and then onto the cord. That’s if it is a necklace and not a curtain tie or similar!
Each of the tear shaped beads are c3cm. 34cm /13.5” end to end so a short choker.
Thanks for looking

 

I've got a couple like that. Home craft work, I think, 30s ish or not much after.

 

Thankyou, it definitely has a homemade vibe to it!

 

It is lovely, and I agree with 1930s or thereabouts.

It shouldn't be too difficult to find replacement faux pearlies for the flowers. Of course that would mean having to go to another car boot sale.

 

O, the horror!

 

Oddly I've seen newish ones made in a similar design, but from a factory.

 

Lucky you @KSW ….I think there’s a very good possibility that your necklace is a Frank Hess design for Miriam Haskell (made in America) from the late-1920s or early 30s when much of Haskell jewelry used natural materials and had a home crafted look. Are you sure the pierced disks on your necklace are glass? They look like an early plastic or celluloid.


I have the Miriam Haskell Jewelry book by Gordon and Pamfiloff, which shows pieces with similar designs using wood and bakelite disks in a flower arrangement sewn to pierced plastic or celluloid backs and silk cord with a loop and bead clasp (however, they’re from the 1940s when metal findings and European materials weren’t available).


I agree with @Any Jewelry that it would be worth restoring if possible—preferably with glass pearls salvaged from a vintage necklace. Even unrestored, I suspect that any Miriam Haskell collector would love to have it. If you search Google images for Haskell mother of pearl necklaces, you’ll see a few that are similar and claim to be Miriam Haskell, but the examples I looked at didn’t have the pierced backs, so I’m not convinced they’re actually Haskell pieces.

 

Wow! I wasn’t expecting that! I nearly put it in a lot on eBay so I’m very grateful you caught me in time!
The disks could be celluloid, I will look more closely.
Off to Google Haskell
Thankyou

 

Blimey.

Off to fish mine out.

 

Lol, there’s going to be a lot of fishing around here

 

You're welcome.