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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 432264, member: 5833&quot;]At the very least, this has been restrung by a non-professional.&nbsp; The other possibility is that a home crafter has married the beads and the vintage clasp.&nbsp; There should not be that gap between the top 2 strands &amp; the lower 3.&nbsp; The largest beads do not look centered.&nbsp; There are many irregularities.</p><p><br /></p><p>The beads look very heavy.&nbsp; If so, it would have been better to knot them against the high probability of a strand&#039;s eventually breaking.&nbsp; It also makes the strand more supple, the knots acting like joints.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is the black grunge between beads something a fingernail can remove?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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