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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucille.b, post: 825303, member: 51&quot;]Always show the entire piece if possible.&nbsp; Assuming there is no clasp?</p><p><br /></p><p>Agree that the Simichrome test looks a little funny -- positive is usually more of a yellow/brown but could just be the photo.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is an odd mark on one of the beads, photo #1, on the left 6 down from the top descending beads.&nbsp; Is that a reflection, a speck of paint, or some kind of loss of finish?&nbsp; If any kind of finish loss, not Bakelite.</p><p><br /></p><p>It does look like a possibly older necklace, beads in descending size, string looks older.</p><p><br /></p><p>My advice, learn also to do the rub test with your hand. Bakelite gives an unmistakable scent -- I can tell Bakelite in less than a minute with no chemicals.&nbsp; You just pick a bead and rub it quickly until the friction actually gets the bead warm, then quickly smell the piece. Sort of like &quot;insulation burning&quot;, smell is unmistakable once you get used to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hard to tell definitively from a photo.&nbsp; Maybe others will have thoughts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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