Featured Necklace Number Two- material, origin, age, value, please?

Let's ask LEONARDO!

"For the human body is so designed by nature that the face, from the chin to the top of the forehead and the lowest roots of the hair, is a tenth part of the whole height; the open hand from the wrist to the tip of the middle finger is just the same; the head from the chin to the crown is an eighth, and with the neck and shoulder from the top of the breast to the lowest roots of the hair is a sixth; from the middle of the breast to the summit of the crown is a fourth. If we take the height of the face itself, the distance from the bottom of the chin to the under side of the nostrils is one third of it; the nose from the under side of the nostrils to a line between the eyebrows is the same; from there to the lowest roots of the hair is also a third, comprising the forehead. The length of the foot is one sixth of the height of the body; of the forearm, one fourth; and the breadth of the breast is also one fourth. The other members, too, have their own symmetrical proportions, and it was by employing them that the famous painters and sculptors of antiquity attained to great and endless renown"

...and more to be revealed.

Anyhoo - we've been measuring our Levi's at flea markets and thrifts this way ever since I can remember...

 

my neck has to go on a diet.........!

 

Usually, it's your waist that has to go on a diet!, not your neck!!! lol

 

I have the same with my Austro-Hungarian necklaces. Most of them can be fitted with extension chains.

 

I measured the shortest strand as instructed, with the clasp and it's 15" total. Thanks for the help ladies, it's going up on eBay today.