Vegetable Ivory/Tagua Nut Bead Necklace, Thrift Shop Find 1 Euro ($1.07) | ||
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Posted 8 years ago
Efesgirl
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I went to a local thrift shop where I hadn't been for more than a month. I picked through all the jewelry and found this choker necklace hanging on a hook in between all sorts of costume jewelry. I now know what my necklace is made from, thanks to some sleuthing by fellow CWers.
Thank yooooooou!!
Bonnie
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Perhaps bone?
T A
you always have something interesting!...looks organic to me
TA - I wondered it if might be bone, but it doesn't seem to be the color of bone. I have a huge polished bone necklace and compared the two - the choker is much creamier in color.
lentilka - looks organic to me, too, in a certain type of light.
Maybe tagua nut, aka vegetable ivory :-D
https://milenagalapagos.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/ecuadorian-tagua-nuts/
@kyra, I'm just not sure that it would have the durability for the clasp.
T A
I stand corrected:
https://cdn0.rubylane.com/shops/colleyo/LCx20002848.3L.jpg?3
T A
@TA and kyra - I am surprised that a nut would feel so cold and heavy....
YIKES! I just looked at another necklace made from tagua nuts on Ruby Lane:
https://www.rubylane.com/item/640529-LCx20002849/VINTAGE-Carved-VEGETABLE-IVORY-Tagua-Nut
Here's the whole link from Ruby Lane showing the other necklace:
https://www.rubylane.com/item/640529-LCx20002848/Vintage-Vegetable-Ivory-Tagua-Nut-Graduated?search=1
Not sure too if convenient for the screw clasp, T A, but vegetable ivory is rather solid.
The one in your link is ivory :-)
I also see that these nut beads are sold wholesale for jewelry making...kind of puts a hole in my boat...LOL!
@kyra - I've never even heard of vegetable ivory before today. I wonder if the ones sold for jewelry making are condensed "scraps" of these nuts rather than whole nuts...I don't have a clue.
@kyra - hmmm! the appraisal is shown there and it lists the necklace as being vegetable ivory. Did the appraiser made a boo-boo? :-)))))
I thought seeing lines as in animal ivory...
But ready to bow in front of a gemmology appraisal :-D
Some cheap ones on aliexpress are surely cheating material...
This eco friendly material is really beautiful, and so similar to elephant tusk!
@kyra - I think so, too - reconstituted materials. The beads are too perfect. My necklace has imperfect beads.
Yep, CW is the place to find the answers to your mysteries! I like that the necklace has the threaded clasp out of the same material, really nice looking! :^)
bill - I always look for necklaces with such clasps. Not so easy to find these days.