Some Jewelery to ID and to look at...

Wendy, glass beads have been used forever in necklaces and earrings. I'm not aware of anyone ever having a problem... other than an unknotted bead strand breaking and the beads going all over the place!

Shiloh, if I were still into making jewelry or selling a large amount of vintage beads, I'd be asking you about your Czech beads. But these days I'm trying to be good and restrain myself.

 

Glass beads are dangerous to my wallet!(LOL)

 

LOL....I have been collecting beads of all kinds since I was a teen...I am 65 now. Anyway, I would buy broken necklaces and sort the beads into various types. I have boxes of them. My youngest daughter just got into beading so I gave her duplicate hanks of the Czech beads,etc. broke my stingy heart to part with them.

We should start a thread and share our passion of beads and old costume jewelry. I also collect that too and all the ones with missing pearls and rhinestones that oneday will be fixed...another task on my very long "Gonna List".

 

Yes, glass beads can be very dangerous to one's wallet! It never ceased to amaze me when I'd walk out of a shop with a smallish bag and a lot less in my bank account!

Shiloh, you have me beat, since I started collecting beads when I was about 21. But not by much, since I'm a couple of years older.

What helped (or didn't, depending upon how you look at it), is that my mom worked about a block from the "bead district" in Manhattan and would go bead shopping for me. She became friendly with the owner of one of the oldest shops and he'd let her go down into the basement and rummage around, and sold her whatever she found by the pound. There was lots of great stuff in that basement!

I like the idea of a thread to discuss beads. I have a gazillion photos I could share, too, since for my first 12 years on eBay I sold beads and buttons (mostly new Czech glass buttons) more than anything else. I stopped when eBay decided to make it difficult for people to buy more than one thing at the same time.

 

Oh how fortunate you were to get all those lovely beads. Czech buttons???? I also collect buttons too,LOL , mostly 50's and 60's buttons, a few celluloid,glass and wood,oh and shell and I have one damaged button left from a set of 5 "Antique "Emaux Peints" Cut Steel Enamel Button Handpainted 1890s Exotic Crane" that I sold on eBay . What a fun thread that will be. I would LOVE to see pics of your buttons and beads

 

Would it make sense to have a subforum for jewelry and sewing supplies? Or would that overlap too much with other categories?

 

I think we can throw buttons under jewelry. Most textile items belong elsewhere.

 

Makes sense and sounds fine by me.