Good Morning Can you help me with dating this necklace?

Good Morning!

I purchased this at a Thrift Store and was wondering if you can help me date this piece. It’s Onyx and what looks like Lapiz Lazuli stones with filigree clasp. Thank you for your help.

 

There is nothing helpful on the necklace to suggest any date... sometime in the last 80 years.

 

Given the colorway, length, and spacers, I'd think newer rather than later but... as above.

Debora

 

thank you!

 

I think, based on other necklaces of my acquaintance, that it was strung in China in the last 40-50 years. Are the beads lapis?

 

thank you!

 

yes some are lapis

 

I agree. China often uses those Art Deco style clasps. It is a pretty and wearable necklace.

The ones in between the smaller spacer beads look like lapis, the other beads are most likely onyx, as ezee said.

 

For me it is not those classic pearl clasps that are so widely used, both for time & location, I have used them on some necklaces I made. It is the simple design of mainly large beads on thick cord, very well & tightly knotted.

 

late to the party as usual, but this is a straight 80s necklace. It could have been made almost anywhere. Dollars to donuts the clasp has a bitty Sterling mark along one side outside. It might also be gold-filled.