{"id":5121,"date":"2010-06-26T20:31:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T02:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2016-05-11T00:04:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T05:04:12","slug":"vintage-36-benchmade-sterling-silver-bead-necklace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/vintage-36-benchmade-sterling-silver-bead-necklace\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage 36&#8243; Benchmade Sterling Silver Bead Necklace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Selling a 36&#8243; necklace of sterling silver benchmade beads, each bead handmade at the bench, probably by an unknown Native American, from silver disc, doming them, drilling them, and then soldering the pairs together.  Some beads faintly show the seam while others don&#8217;t.  The beads are strung on a silver &#8220;Foxtail&#8221; wire chain.  Each bead is about 10mm diameter, total weight is 2.36 Troy ounces.  Necklace is unmarked, which is common with these early handmade pieces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/benchmadebeads1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/benchmadebeads1-650x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bench Made Silver Beads 1\" width=\"650\" height=\"570\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-32067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/benchmadebeads1-650x570.jpg 650w, https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/benchmadebeads1.jpg 1678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/benchmadebeads2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/benchmadebeads2-650x626.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bench Made Silver Beads 2\" width=\"650\" height=\"626\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-32068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/benchmadebeads2-650x626.jpg 650w, https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/benchmadebeads2.jpg 1489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Realized $79.88 7\/4\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selling a 36&#8243; necklace of sterling silver benchmade beads, each bead handmade at the bench, probably by an unknown Native American, from silver disc, doming them, drilling them, and then soldering the pairs together. Some beads faintly show the seam while others don&#8217;t. The beads are strung on a silver &#8220;Foxtail&#8221; wire chain. Each bead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/vintage-36-benchmade-sterling-silver-bead-necklace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vintage 36&#8243; Benchmade Sterling Silver Bead Necklace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1735,1003,723,975],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gallery","tag-benchmade","tag-necklace","tag-sold","tag-sterling-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32070,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions\/32070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}