Featured ID of origin, age and value on glass bead necklace/bracelet -Assistance, please?

Hello good people,
I have a number of pieces to be ID'd and sold, from a friend's family estate. Not being a jewelie, I am at a loss on some of these. This may end up trying your patience, and I apologize in advance. But here goes Number One:
This set is made of a real shell with an iridised coating and what I assume are Italian? lamp-worked beads. Beyond that??... Thank you!

 

I wonder if someone re-strung those beads with the shells.
The clasp is inexpensive mid 1900s
The beads look much older.

Can you show a better picture of this area


Oh and is it strung on nylon cord or silk thread?

 

Nylon, I think - unknotted. Very sweet, @Darkwing Manor !

Your necklace and bracelet set is a demi parure...

Here's a FULL parure


To quote @i need help ZOIKS!!!

 

It's either silk or cotton, I'm not able to tell the difference, but definitely not plastic-ish. Looks quite amateurish, and home-made. I expect my best angle will be to sell as old Viennese (?) beads, to be re-worked? I assume that's gold leaf on there.

 

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing!

 

I expect my best angle will be to sell as old Viennese (?) beads, to be re-worked?

I think that is a good back-up plan if you can't ID. Just take very good photos, put on a 10 day auction rather than fixed price.

These are unusual looking. I've been "bead obsessed" for a couple decades, don't recall seeing any like this.

Maybe others will have thoughts.

 

Yeah, not Nylon!

The beads really are pretty. The milky blue in the shells works really well with them.

 

Venetian?

 

Venetian beads, I'd say.

 

Yes, that's what I meant, not Viennese! Doh! Got my "V" towns confused. Thanks everyone! (Cited from: https://www.antiquers.com/threads/i...ad-necklace-bracelet-assistance-please.32635/)

 

I think that originally these were a single strand opera length necklace. Probably had no clasp as it wouldn't have been needed. Small bead spacers or metal caps.

I would guess age on the beads to be about 1900-1920s. Venetian glass

 

As my neice always says to her mother as she's walking out the door: just take ONE thing off!