Final necklace with stone beads

Last one ... I promise.
(of this bunch)

This one has a variety of beads ... agates? ... carnelians - maybe? ... bloodstone? ...aventurine? Anything I've missed?

Isn't it odd to find common stones such as these strung with a 14K clasp?

All beads are imperfectly shaped ... I wonder if they (all the necklaces I've shown) were from someone at a (gem?) show and they ground and polished all their own beads. I'm just throwing out ideas because they seem odd - to me, at least.


carnelian? showing how out of round they are ...

also showing how not drilled straight through ...

 

Rough shaped on a grinding wheel,put into a bead mill,drilled by a 10 year old kid... life on the streets of India for more than a hundred years.

 

Sure enough! Thank you - Hollyblue!
I found an interesting article on this subject here:
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/cambay-beadmaking/

kid drilling bead:

 

Someone took an 80s necklace strung with brass and restrung it with gold beads.

 

In many Asian countries, including the Middle East, for over a thousand years.

 

Hollyblue said: ↑
Rough shaped on a grinding wheel,put into a bead mill,drilled by a 10 year old kid... life on the streets of India for more than a hundred years.

And as a result, in most bead shops one can find these; anyone can buy a handful of pretty stone beads, string them any way they like. I'd think commercial makers would use a more consistent selection of stones; many of these do look like agate and carnelian, plus some others.

 

They're what I've always called RPR beads - random pretty rock. No particular value but they can look good.

 

Thank you @Hollyblue @evelyb30 @Any Jewelry and @all_fakes for helping me to learn a bit more about how beads like this were, and still are (in certain places), made by hand.

 

Some of the beads are of the same sort as in necklaces 2-4. Some roughly round & box shaped carnelian. The lavender-grey ones are more chalcedony, another common natural shade. The ones with red speckles look like bloodstone/heliotrope.

 

Thank you @Bronwen !