Beaded necklace. Part of set of 5, 3rd longest in set. Band formed of 9 wires threaded with brightly coloured beads and fastened together with spaced plastic bands. Top 7 wires threaded with blue, green, red, white, yellow and black beads forming diagonal bands and triangle shapes, interspaced with red, white and black vertical bands. 8th wire made of yellow beads, 9th of large beads alternating between black and red. Jagged final band of blue, red and white beads forming small triangles. Silver metal chain finished with silver disks suspended from the tip of each triangle. Centre of necklace has a white pearlescent button.
necklace
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