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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joan, post: 4472797, member: 5398&quot;]Lucky you [USER=8708]@KSW[/USER] ….I think there’s a very good possibility that your necklace is a Frank Hess design for Miriam Haskell (made in America) from the late-1920s or early 30s when much of Haskell jewelry used natural materials and had a home crafted look. Are you sure the pierced disks on your necklace are glass? They look like an early plastic or celluloid.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have the Miriam Haskell Jewelry book by Gordon and Pamfiloff, which shows pieces with similar designs using wood and bakelite disks in a flower arrangement sewn to pierced plastic or celluloid backs and silk cord with a loop and bead clasp (however, they’re from the 1940s when metal findings and European materials weren’t available).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with [USER=2844]@Any Jewelry[/USER] that it would be worth restoring if possible—preferably with glass pearls salvaged from a vintage necklace. Even unrestored, I suspect that any Miriam Haskell collector would love to have it. If you search Google images for Haskell mother of pearl necklaces, you’ll see a few that are similar and claim to be Miriam Haskell, but the examples I looked at didn’t have the pierced backs, so I’m not convinced they’re actually Haskell pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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