15 inch Rhinestone necklace, consisting of four swags gathered at five lager, emerald-cut points. There are some stones missing, one in one of the swags, four to the left of the swag design, and one somewhere on the right. They can be replaced, but it’s difficult to find color matches, even with white stones.
The clasp has always seemed to me to be a bit too ornate for the clean deco lines of this piece, but that’s the way of rhinestone jewelry.
I was really into old rhinestones in the seventies. I mean– really. The sparkle from a hundred tiny pieces of glass could keep me sane on the long bus rides back and forth to college. Plus, I could find them in the thrift stores, making them cheap thrills. I stopped looking for them after 1978, when my tastes changed for crystal beads. So most of the rhinestones I’m offering are more than forty years old, and some of these patterns are much older than that.
