Side-drill bead necklace holder?

[David Robertson]

Dear danachit,

Now, that's what I call a question.  :shocked:  Let me deduce:

If the finding is just a bail that doesn't look like a bail, maybe it's a fold-over glue-on bail.  These can be seen on <Font Color=green>page 24</Font Color> of our online catalog.  Or maybe it's a bead cap, if the peridot happens not to actually be drilled.  (Bead caps are on the page I just mentioned, too.)

If it is definitely not a bail (I didn't find the piece you mean in the online Sundance catalog, so I don't know), it's something else.

If it's something else, but looks like a bail, it could be a fancily designed, maybe handmade, jump ring.

If it's not that, it might be, um, a piece of wire that the artisan used to create a neat bail substitute.

It would be nice to see a picture of the item you're asking about.  I suspect I'd have more ideas for you then!

--Dave  :confused:

[danachit]

I saw a cute peridot faceted top drilled suspended from this tiny fancy 'something or other' that was hanging from a silver chain.  It was kinda like a bail but obviously something was going through the top of the stone.  Any ideas on what this was?  It was in the Sundance catalog.

[David Robertson]

Dana,

Thanks for emailing me the picture separately!  That looks like a fancy, handmade bail.  A very nice design, I might add...I'll bet we could sell thousands of 'em if we had any.

--Dave