Fulani Style Earrings by Ruth luster Vintage 1950s high-silver content bead

Vintage 1950s high-silver content bead from India

handmade by Ruth with cornflower blue color hand-faceted beads (Czech early 1900's) and handmade Yoruba brass charms (Nigeria

and is in excellent condition

12" strand of worn metal beads

Over 100 years old from the Rajasthan state of the subcontinent

Fulani Style Earrings by Ruth luster Vintage 1950s high-silver content beadTraditional colorful pressed glass beads, popular with the nomadic Fulani Tribal People of West Africa. These Czech glass beads were traded in West Africa in the 1920's 40's and are quite unusual. These earrings are composed with oxidized sterling silver chain and wire, with niobium earwires. Pressed glass orange and yellow flowers are 12mm diameter. Total length of earrings is 2 1 4 inches. Last photo shows 2 other earring designs in this collection.