Ancient Amazonite beads in short strands, from Mauritania - Rita Okrent Collection (S469)

Ancient Amazonite beads in short strands, from Mauritania - Rita Okrent Collection (S469)Ancient amazonite beads from Mauritania, in short strands. Estimated to be over 1000 years old, though some bead holes may have been made from the ancient stones more recently. Rita used ancient amazonite beads from Mauritania in many of her necklace designs over the years. These short strands are priced by color, quality and weight. Strand 13: 8 beads, 12 18mm diameter, 32. 1 grams. (available) sold Strand 7: 15 beads, 9 13mm diameter, 22. 9 grams.

Shapes vary

late 19th to mid 20th century

Rita used turquoise in some designs and these were strung from her extra beads

Includes traditionally used beads including faux and real coral and mother-of-pearl or shell beads

Also see similar necklaces in the reference book Silberschmuck aus Agypten

Purchased by Rita in the 1980's in Egypt

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Used for decorative traditional jewelry

With ebony and silver wirework spacer beads

Note that this has a lot of vert-de-gris or patina

Some ancient stone beads included in this strand

Includes ancient glass pendants