Description: Vintage Metallic Gold tone beads beautiful shiny golden turn of the century 1890-1920. Original labels attached with silk purple floss say "made in Czecho-Slovakia" Metallic Pearls by Jul Roberts. Thank you for looking and good luck with your auctions. * The beads are very light weight and I am uncertain of what they are made of, my thought is most likely glass? ** Always happy to combine shipping !! Where these beads are from --->>>> These beads are from the many boxes threads, needles, sewing accoutrements, beaded bags, beads and remnants of pieces that were repaired over the decades at my grandmothers needlework school in Manhattan, LaMers Studio 1909-1967 (see photos) !! Often customers would bring in items for repair, and after they received the insurance money, as many of the wealthy customers insured their items, they would not return to pick up the piece. Women from around the world, mostly France, Germany and Switzerland would come to learn the skills of reweaving any fabric, repairing clothes, table clothes, and making beaded dresses, bags, shoes and jewelry. She had a thriving business during the depression of the 1930's when she catered to the wealthy who desired such beaded fashions. Some of her customers whom I have letters from were Nat King Cole, he was a heavy smoker and always burning his suits, Alice Tully of Lincoln Center, Henry Ford, yes THE Henry Ford, and Eleanor Roosevelt to name a few. She was quite the business woman at a time when women didn't own their own businesses. She was an artist with a needle and thread.
Price: 4.99 USD
Location: Millbrook, New York
End Time: 2024-11-16T19:32:18.000Z
Shipping Cost: 4.89 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Color: Gold
Material: Glass
Country/Region of Manufacture: Slovakia
