BoffinBeads Vintage has assembled this unique and quirky pair of long tassel earrings made with collectable antique vintage pressed glass beads, micro seed beads, micro 'white heart' Cornaline d'Aleppo beads and vintage glass talisman talhakimt triangular bead suspended from vintage gold-plated chain and tiny 3 mm jump rings. These cannot be found elsewhere anywhere quite the same. It is said that the upper oval pressed red beads are known as 'Red Sea Shell' beads in Tuareg communities in Africa as they resemble the red coral that can be found occasionally in this area. They look like 'sunburst' design too and of a most pleasing holly berry red with what looks like mud deposits present on some that BoffinBeads has on a strand of the same. These upper red beads are topped and tailed with vintage African-made? brass heishi beads and lower down, tiny black seed beads, dark red 'white heart' beads and a porcelain white seed bead dangle freely from above, the talhakimt talisman bead is not quite black but extremely dark garnet glass giving the impression of black. It takes time to assemble such earrings and under magnification, they are fairly delicate being of fine-gauge brass so take care of them and never pull too hard! They wobble about beautifully as you move, quite long at 75 mm or  about 3", and weight each earring: 2.6 grams each which is light for earrings of such a long length. You can ask for fish hooks, shepherd's crook hooks, kidney wires, kidney wires with a light raspberry red/pink lucite cabochon, 4 mm brass studs with surgical steel posts, clip-ons or screw-ins for non-pierced ears, just message us for your favourites, all in NEW gold-plated metal. The beads were probably originally from old Bohemia and were used in Africa as exchange for commodities in the distant past, the tiny seed beads are micro at circa 1.5 mm thick only!

Buy-It-Now £22.75 + £3.49 p&p to U.K. destinations, Europe £11.75 and USA, Canada and other far away places £21.75 and if these guesstimates are wrong at the time of posting, we refund the difference between what you paid and what it actually cost. Items will be put inside a protective box of some kind at these are fairly delicate and postal machinery can ruin such items. We endeavour to recycle our packaging to have minimum waste for the environment, and your earrings will come with a small mini freebie lavender sachet to aromatise the packet nicely whilst you open your delivery. We are Ebayers of longstanding so please expect top service. Have a look at our other items if you have time, eco gifts for family and friends they won't have had before!

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