Materials and Features:

• Banded Scenic Picture Jasper Centerpiece: A striking focal display of 1970s lapidary design. This features a substantial, highly polished tabular palm-stone pendant sliced from genuine Oregon landscape picture jasper. The stone displays rich, natural sedimentary layers of sand, tan, and cream tones, heavily striated with brick-red mineral banding that beautifully simulates a desert landscape.

• Inclusion-Verified Smoky Quartz Crystalline: The upper opera-length strand features alternating smooth round beads and organic free-flow segments of genuine smoky quartz. Verified under 10x magnification, the crystalline structures exhibit authentic geological markers, including negative crystal cavity bubbles and thin, stringy iron-oxide veining that prove natural mineral growth.

• Asymmetric Layered Beadwork Matrix: The upper neck loop is meticulously hand-strung using a highly distinctive, asymmetrical dual-row layout. The design blends multi-toned zebra jasper and picture jasper stone chips with golden spacer accents, creating an organic, earthy texture that transitions smoothly into the heavy lower drop.

• Solid Brass Finding Seed Spacers: Accenting the entire 38-inch strand and anchoring the lower fringe are genuine, non-magnetic solid brass spacer seed beads. Hand-verified via acoustic and tactile tooth-texture testing, these dense, heavy-gauge metallic spacers provide structural weight stability across the dual rows and prevent the gemstone beads from abrading the stringing thread.

• Metallic Oxide Luster Faux Pearls: The lower tassel fringe is tipped with substantial peach-toned faux pearls built with a heavy glass-core base. The baubles feature a premium, multi-layered liquid fish-scale lacquer coating (essence d'orient) blended with iridescent metallic-oxide washes—the exact chemical formula used on vintage Japanese Noritake lusterware porcelain—producing a deep metallic-peach iridescence.

Type: Continuous over-the-head opera rope necklace with zero closure hardware

Age/Origin: 1970s (Southwestern Boho Revival / USA Artisan Assembly using Mid-Century Japanese Components)

Marks: Unmarked (Attributed to the 1970s Southwestern Boho movement based on modern diamond-sliced landscape jasper geometry, crystalline smoky quartz inclusion patterns, solid brass spacer architecture, and asymmetric multi-strand tassel assembly mechanics)

Measurements:

• Weight: 64.9g (with substantial mass contributed by the solid brass spacers and dense gemstone bodies)

• Dimensions: Approx. 19” total linear hanging length (38" total loop circumference); central tabular jasper pendant measures approx. 1.5” x 1”; lower drop tassel hangs an additional 5.25”

Condition: Very good vintage archival condition. The substantial picture jasper pendant and smoky quartz beads maintain a mirror-bright polish with zero chips or fractures, and the upper dual strands remain structurally secure with no string stretching or slack. One lower peach pearl drop exhibits a minor, localized area of slight peeling to its outer luster lacquer layer, while the surrounding lacquer coats remain beautifully uniform and iridescent.