Art Deco Opal & Rock Crystal Bead Necklace turquoise They sparkle and glisten beautifully

They sparkle and glisten beautifully as the move through the light

with an amazingly detailed enamel rendering of Christ with a chased star halo

They're particularly well made

and with a feather fleur-de-lis just under the bail

Art Deco Opal & Rock Crystal Bead Necklace turquoise They sparkle and glisten beautifullyDATE: Art Deco, 1926 On the 15th of February, 1926, Annie Bamford walked in to a jewellery shop on Yorkshire Street in Rochdale and purchased this exceptional string of opal beads, unlike any I've ever seen, for the princely sum of 15 (around 1000 in today's money). While we'll almost certainly never know who she was there were eight Annie Bamfords living in Rochdale on the 1911 census, and even more in 1939; it's a common name around these parts