Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — SEED PEARL JEWELRY AGAIN [ARTICLE]

SEED PEARL JEWELRY AGAIN

Ornamentation That Had Its Day of Popularity Long Ago Has Returned to Favort Get out your seed pearls that have been tucked away for years, for this once popular Jewelry Is in favor again and is appearing in delightful forms. While the new designs are copies of the old French pieces, they never have the association of an antique, so dealers in the seed pearl jewelry are making a specialty of remodeling and repairing the old brooches, bracelets and necklaces handed down frotn an earlier generation. If your boxes reveal no treasures, the modern effects are lovely. Very gorgeous is one festoon necklace of combination oval chains of smaller seed pearls and ending In the middle of the front In a long pendant. Brooches —eval, round and starshaped—are the size of an old fashioned watch or slightly smaller; and as a concession to modern taste, there are fascinating bar pins of various lengths, formed of connecting rings of the seed pearls, some with a round cluster brooch In the center. Lorgnette and watch chains «f double or triple rows of the seed pearls are studded at intervals with oval or round clusters. A quaint bracelet copied from an heirloom has a solid studding an inch wide or pearls, with a large star shaped ornament flanked by two smaller ones. Two old band bracelets of seed pearls have just been made Into a necklace, the joining being concealed with a fringe of the pearls finished with small droils. Remarkably quaint are the long festoon earrings. These are rather trying and should be worn with caution by all save the woman of rhjjular features and good skin.