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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 514248, member: 5833&quot;]To me too.&nbsp; Beads of this type have come up before &amp; I showed these then:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]166332[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]166333[/ATTACH] </p><p>I bought them at a bead store owned by a man who also has a gallery of ethnographic art.&nbsp; He represented them to me as early faux amber &amp; they were part of a collection he had bought entire from someone who had been using &#039;hill silver&#039; beads &amp; pendants from the Himalayan countries in her own jewellery making.&nbsp; They do not fluoresce under UV light.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your necklace looks to me like the same sort of thing: modern assembly of vintage components.&nbsp; The way the ends are finished, with French wire, a crimp &amp; a spring ring, is not consistent with vintage Himalayan work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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