Long vintage brass hoop and  scarce

 antique late 1800s - early 1900s

Venetian 'decorated' beads

+ cranberry 'white-hearts'  beads earrings! 

 Photos 1 - 10 above

Now £24.75 + £3.49 p&p

Very pretty indeed, long pair of earrings for jazzy-minded ladies who like to wear antique/vintage items of jewellery as per photos 1 - 10 in gallery above. The beautiful, smaller-than-usual, hand-decorated Venetian tube beads are SCARCE in this size, as-found condition with age-related imperfections, and dated to about late 1800s to early 1900s, typical of those beads traded with African folk during the early nineteenth century and live with us today in 2023. Pretty cranberry red 'white hearts' beads above and below the tube beads are a delightful colour combination and equally as old! USA-imported, stamped brass filigree hoops of 22 mm diameter date back to about the 1970s hippy period and are seen here currently unpolished. New, stamped 14K GF gold-filled ear hooks may be exchanged to clips, studs, leverbacks and so on so feel free to enquire and BoffinBeads Vintage will exchange them right away. Length from top of these particular wires down to tips of hoops = 57 mm or just under 2.25". Weight 1.6 grams and 1.7 grams each earring which is fairly light for earrings of this type. Final photo is a stack of antique vintage cobalt blue USA-imported 'Russian Blues' faceted time-worn beads earrings in our other Ebay listing.

Further reading: AFRICA ADORNED by Angela Fisher and several other wonderful beadology books too numerous to list here. Background African textiles from African Fabric Shop, background photos also from AFRICAN MYTHOLOGY by Geoffrey Parrinder, published 1967.

Buy-It-Now £24.75 with £3.49 U.K. postage, Europe Internationally Signed For £11.75 and countries further afield £21.75. Combined postage always guaranteed on everything from BoffinBeads Vintage with partial refunds issued if there is significant over-payment of postage if Ebay doesn't calculate it quite correctly. FREE mini lavender bag from our own garden to delight the olfactory senses when opening jiffy bag, recycled outer shock-absorbing materials used as a matter of environmental principle. 100% positive Ebay feedback and from a pet-free, smoke-free home.  

 History in wearable form! See our other items too!