Featured Help with makers mark and stones on a bracelet.

Hi Folks,

Picked this piece up the other day out of a dollar box at the local flea market.
Was wondering if anyone could help with who the maker is and what the stones are. I think some may be coral , but pretty much a guess on my part. Does anything about the piece give a clue as to the age? There is a braided wire connecting it all.
Thanks for any help.
Kevin.

 

It's a relatively recent clasp. Can you make out the number before the "25"?

Since the beads are on a wire, my hunch is the beads are stone and not glass. Some of the beads may be carnelian.

 

That’s a Carolyn Pollack mark.

 

925 with a copyright symbol..

 

925 makes sense, but it almost looks like a "4" rather than a "9" to me.

 

The beads all look like stone to me & fall within the color range of carnelian - sard & red jasper. Bottom line is quartz.

 

maybe a couple of red & orange banded agates in the mix.......

 

Wow.
You all are amazing. Carolyn Pollack for sure. Pretty cool find for a buck.
Thank you all for the help.

 

Same thing, just in layers. Microcrystalline quartz, all of them.

 

ya...but it's a sexy name , easy to search for........& I like it !

 

'Banded agate' is sexy? Lots of sexy cameos out there then.

 

Leda getting freaky with the Swan, aka Zeus?

 

Yeah, that's them. Debatable who's freakier.

 

Better Zeus......than a Goose !!!

 

OOOH NOoo !! .. I thought she was just giving it a hug ...

 

This composition is pretty tame. Some of the ancient ones are pretty steamy. Then there's Europa:

 

The Ancients must have had a fascination with bestiality....

 

He's a swan for Leda, a bull for Europa, a shower of gold that falls into the lap of Danae even though she's locked in a tower. Callisto was one of the chaste followers of the Artemis. Zeus gets at her by taking on the likeness of the goddess. Now & then I see porcelain miniatures of the seduction of Callisto.


The presence of Cupid in the scene is the tip off that they're not being just friendly.

There was a phrase in a book from the 1950s that meant something different to the author, but got taken up by the public as expressing the Greek attitude: polymorphously perverse.