The shape of the orange beads doesn’t seem quite right either, but I am no expert!
The shape of the orange beads doesn’t seem quite right either, but I am no expert!
The cat beads are super rare- at least I’ve never seen them! But the necklace is a typical Czech pressed glass beads assembly, probably from the interwar period. I don’t know if it can be conclusively ID’d as a Neiger Brothers design.
This is a really sweet collector’s piece!
Closest thing to cats I've seen in old Czech beads - birds! I think they are parrots.
This necklace with elephant beads sold in July. Assuming this elephant bead necklace is indeed old and given the similarities in the two necklaces, could the brownish color in the recesses of the orange beads in Lindabd's necklace simply have been removed, making her "pumpkin beads" look a bit less nuanced than the whitish beads that retain their brown shadows?
From the seller of the elephant bead necklace: The necklace measures 62". The large focal elephant bead measures 7/8". Smaller elephants measure around 5/8".
Have there been editions of such necklace types created after the interwar period?
I just ran across this picture of a Neiger cat necklace that appears to have sold on eBay a few years ago.