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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 939501, member: 2844&quot;]The original components are gorgeous, and it is worth re-working it into something close to the original. I agree, the clasp, nice though it is, has no business being there.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> And yes, it is a copy of an older style, which was already used in the 1910s, maybe before.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Neiger brothers didn&#039;t make beads themselves, they designed jewellery and commissioned glass beads and components or bought them ready-made from glass component manufacturers. Other designers bought from the same glass manufacturers.</p><p>This doesn&#039;t strike me as a Neiger design, I think it is older than Neiger.</p><p><br /></p><p>Strictly speaking Peking glass beads are beads traditionally made by the Imperial Glassworks in Beijing/Peking. However, in the 1890s Bohemian glass manufacturers began to copy mottled Peking glass beads, much like they skilfully copied gemstone. They were so succesful that their beautiful beads are called Bohemian or Czech Peking glass. Your beads are definitely Bohemian or Czech Peking glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Imperial Glassworks also made overlay glass. Peking overlay glass beads are layered and carved. Overlay is beautiful and skilfully handmade, but it is just one of the many types of glass that is called Peking glass.</p><p>Here are examples of Peking Glass, including overlay:</p><p><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/chinese-snuff-bottles-cameo-carved-and.23777/#post-319130" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/chinese-snuff-bottles-cameo-carved-and.23777/#post-319130">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/chinese-snuff-bottles-cameo-carved-and.23777/#post-319130</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It is yours and no longer original, so it is up to you to make it into a necklace that you would wear. However, I think the Bohemian components pre-date the Art Deco and Neiger era. They could be 1890-1900, but let&#039;s wait what the others say.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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