Featured What color would you call this bakelite necklace?

The green one has exactly the same spacer beads as well.

 

No question about it from what I can see. I've found pieces with bakelite beads made well into the early 70s. Old stocks would turn up in the back of a warehouse someplace and a manufacturer would snag it and use it.

 

DAG - typed this comment last night & thought I hit post but reckon not - so a bit out of context maybe -

OP are they more red or brown?

In my experience bead seams usually run vertically. Not seeing seams here (can't say I've seen beads with that horizontal buffed or polished center section though).

Bakelite colors in jewelry are predominantly food related with a few exceptions.

Here's an ebay guide with color list (scroll past the buttons)

http://www.ebay.com/gds/A-Guide-to-Bakelite-Color-/10000000205120653/g.html

I'd have thought the color closest to "Root Beer" but not seeing black swirls so maybe "Rust"....?

 

They're probably a marbled red, yellow and orange. Those last images are of a swirl pattern I've seen before. Bakelite wouldn't have seams at all; seams mean the beads are something else, unless they're the laminated ones.

 

Exactly evelyb, I mentioned that in response to cluttered's page 1 comment re: seams (& waited nearly 24 hrs to actually POST, lol)