Have seen bracelets with 4 such beads and simple (8mm or so) beads in between.
I suggest, for a very simple finished item, attaching one to a stretchy metal watchband to make a bead "watch". I have 3 of these with various tabulars, Rosanna has done them too.
This is one of Matt's:
I have been collecting these with no effort into assembling them! Does this make me a hoarder of this type?
Fred, Sybelle Jargstorf's books may shed some clarification, but mine are lost in storage at this time. "Glass Beads From Europe", I believe, shows the "surfboards" and I'm quite sure they are 1920s items. The elbow shape predates those, but how many years, I don't know - and they are a more versatile shape than the tabular "surfboards". Five or seven elbows, matching, make great focals for a short necklace.
