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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2577622, member: 5833&quot;]From this photo my strongest feeling is shell:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/d9ab3ab7-bea2-4a1f-80fd-9399d136fc32-jpeg.270530/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is shell:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://cameotimes.com/images/Materials/ConchShell/ConchBeadC.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And these are MOP:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]270646[/ATTACH] </p><p>(Lighting making them look more yellow than they are.)&nbsp; They are not pearly looking on all surfaces; some areas are more like your beads.&nbsp; The larger beads are surely as big as or bigger than your beads.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Assuming there was some other original.&nbsp; This doesn&#039;t look commercially made to me.&nbsp; I have used old clasps &amp; beads cannibalized from other necklaces in my own designs.&nbsp; Until the recent surge in silver prices, a clasp like this was not expensive new &amp; easily found on vintage strands of artificial pearls.&nbsp; A crafter may have used the clasp ready to hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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