FREE: Vintage Pre-WWII Pearl Necklace Marked 'JAPAN'! WOW!

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This is a vintage small-pearl pre-WWII necklace marked 'JAPAN' that I found in a box of vintage jewelry that members of my family have given me. I truly don't know if these are brown from age or were originally this color. As you know, I do not clean vintage jewelry because I realize that sometimes a patina is valued!

A great deal of vintage Japanese costume jewelry is very well made, far better than most contemporary "fashion jewelry," with many pieces on par with Coro , Trifari, Lisner.
In the past and in some circles, a low regard for Japan jewelry was due to the fact that after WWII labor in Japan was cheap, and so the jewelry was inexpensive and put out in large quantities. But we must realize that most of the JAPAN-marked jewelry is hand strung in such an array of designs that rarely are two Japan necklaces found exactly alike. In fact, many Coro bead necklaces of the 1940's and 1950's were actually imported from Japan, which may also be true for some of the Lisner bead necklaces.