You can wear this star-spangled bracelet to the polling place without getting arrested for electioneering. The red, white and blue little cubes and seed beads are glass, as are the silver-lined bugle beads and seed beads in the ball-and-loop clasp and charm loops. The charming little Dem donkey and 2008, as well as the clasp's ball, are silver-plated. The piece is about 8 1/2 inches long when clasped on the wrist.