This necklace is pure elegance with its luminescent mother-of-pearl oval and small antique button. We named it Sheehan, a Middle English word meaning fair and comely.
The biological name for mother-of-pearl is nacre. Nacre is formed from a blend of minerals a mollusk secretes to protect itself from foreign objects, such as sand, in its shell. The nacre wraps itself around the intruding object in layers, creating a pearl and thus is called “the mother of the pearl.”
The mother-of-pearl oval hangs from a single one-of-a-kind, antique, Victorian-era brass button.
Every antique button is a one and only, chosen just for you, and so will not be identical to the image.
In this piece:
- Antique brass button, circa 1880-1890
- Two brass-plated pewter settings made today in the USA
- Large oval mother-of-pearl cabochon
- Two mother-of-pearl beads
- Antiqued brass chain
- Length is 18” with a 4” extender
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