(Internal #V-42-3)  You are bidding on a beautiful, handmade, gemstone bead necklace, made with 28mm natural sponge coral oblong beads spaced with 8mm round gold brass beads.  Necklace is 26" long, with gold rhodium clasp.

RUST SPONGE CORAL (Melithaea ochracea), this sponge coral is a gem coral - hard, lives underwater, naturally organically produces tree-like structures, usually found attached to sea floors.  These underwater trees are the byproducts of small, cylindrical, tube-like colonizing sea creaturs called polyps.  The holes in the sponge coral are the homes of these individual polyps.  Unlike most other gem corals, the sponge coral polyp homes rarely grow shut, and these open vacant homes are what have given the sponge coral its name.

Found mainly in the South China Sea, form Taiwan down to Indonesia, the sponge coral has a distinct fan-shaped appearance underwater.  Many ornamental sponge corals have been used for decorative purposes in aquariums, being made into jewelry only in recent years.

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