antique glass bead Christmas garland, strings & loose beads, mini ornaments & glass beads

Vintage glass beads Christmas garland, in need of restoration. These are an unusual style with the large and small beads, the larger beads almost like mini ball ornaments. This will be lovely with a little work and maybe a new string - but they're 100 years old or more, and show their age.

There's many unstrung beads here, and some of the beads still threaded on the string are broken. All of the beads have worn silvering, and the red flash colored beads have only a few traces of the original color remaining (they're still pretty as silver!). Many beads have chipping or roughness at the holes.