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Message:: [QUOTE="Joan, post: 3021627, member: 5398"]A pretty necklace -- I could see it being worn in the 1950's with a pastel yellow and white sundress. The hang tag on your necklace was used from the early 1950s until the late 1970s. The style looks fifties, but could be early-sixties. From what I can see in the photos, the big bead on the hook seems too large, and the beaded tail looks a little short. The tails usually have a larger bead at the end, so I'm wondering if the original bead on the hook broke off and someone took the bead from the end of the tail and wired it to the hook--but if there's a small metal bead on the end of the tail, then maybe not. According to an article in Collectors Weekly by Maribeth Keane and Jessica Lewis, "Haskell produced several levels of pieces. The A level might include a very elaborate, very sophisticated, very over-the-top necklace-and-bracelet set. Pieces in the B level were a bit less involved. Something in the C level might be a very nice strand of beads with some sort of a center drop, or even just a plain strand of beads. So there was some consciousness on the part of Haskell for people’s pocketbooks, but primarily it was for the high-end market."[/QUOTE]