Long vintage larger brass hoop and

African handmade 'sand-cast' tube beads +

 antique late 1800s - early 1900s

 red 'stick' beads  earrings! 

 Photos 1 - 7 above

Now £19.75 + £3.69 p&p

Very long pair of earrings for jazzy-minded ladies who like to wear antique/vintage items of jewellery as per photos 1 - 7 in the gallery photos above. Handmade in Africa by the 'sand-cast' method tube beads with random markings and old antique Bohemian/Czech Republish 'stick' beads above and below. The larger hoops are diameter 32 mm and nice filigree pattern to them as you can see. (In photos 9, 10 and 11, you can see some beautiful, smaller, similar hoops earrings for sale in our separate Ebay listing.) USA-imported stamped brass filigree hoops of 32 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 = 86 mm or just about 3.5" - LONG! Weight 4.4 grams and 4.5 grams each earring which is fairly heavy for earrings of this type. We also have a similar smaller-sized pair of long tassels for sale in a separate Ebay listing but made with a different interesting assortment of multi-coloured antique beads. 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 £19.75 with £3.69 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!