Hi there -- very pretty beads. Looks like the silver is granulated silver typical of what is made in Bali, Indonesia. It's a little bit difficult to identify the bone beads with any specificity, but very similar beads are being made today in India and Nepal (and perhaps other places as well). My best guess is that your beads are newly made in one of those places and were incorporated into what looks like a very pretty bracelet. Hopefully others will weigh in if they see something different.
Abe @
Beadstore.comThank you for your help. I know they're fairly old as they were my mothers. Thinking at least 40 years as her friend went to Asia in the 1970's.
These are clip earrings. And they could be as recently as ten to fifteen years old. The silver is Balinese. And the bone is likely from India.
The "granulation" is not fabricated. But it is made by sophisticated casting techniques.
-In Chinese construction, a container bead or pendant was meant for holding fragrances and then held shut in various ways.
I have seen clasps similar to these, but I've not noticed Balinese open ball beads constructed as containers before.
i have identical bone beads from India that we used to sell in my bead shop- since the 1980s. if the granulated silver decoration is made in the traditional way it would be separate individual tiny spheres fused onto the surface, we saw granulated silver beads from Bali at that time- otherwise the beads might be cast. clip-on earrings were more common before the 1990s.