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Original Message: Continuing the project- Sunday booty

today i went first to Fred's favourite antique fair which is held once a month on tabletops in a hall in central london. its quite a posh and select event and has gained a reputation, but the prices are mostly HIGH, because almost every trendy vendor is well-informed as well as desperate to make sales. Saw a lot of high priced amber, some being sold.
after that i battled the tourists as i went around Camden lock market which is a few blocks from my home. of the hundreds of stalls, kiosks, booths and shops one next to another, all but a couple had the exact same type of souvenir stuff- mugs with pictures of london buses, t-shirts with predictable slogans, bizarre costumes, fridge magnets, smoking gear, harem pants, garments and bedspreads made in either north india or south america, etc etc and i know their main wholesale importer anyway so tedious and disappointing. -however the abundant choice of street food of every nationality is incredible.
here is my haul from this morning-
what i DID NOT buy because of high prices included 2 oriental strands- 1) a tassel necklace with a number of very large beads of red or black lacquer including abalone inlays in a pattern, 2) a broken string with a few real ivory carved Ojime type beads (one resembling a hare) and glass lampwork edo-style round beads, also metal, cinnabar, and a composition 2-face bead of the kind we have discussed here.
what i show are WHAT I DID BUY: a boar's tusk, a choker of red Czech tetrahedron beads in coral colour glass, a choker length of pinched pink+avventurina Venetians, 2 necklaces both needing upcycling which are variants of the type of beads made with turquoise-coloured chips embedded in bitumen which may be from Kashmir, etc. and at the bottom, a rosary of lampwork beads of yellow glass that glow under UV light, and these each have small round dots of silver foil which is impressed with a texture, within the glass the bead is made of. They surely must be Czech too? the cross and the medallion are silver.
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Original Message: Continuing the project- Sunday booty
today i went first to Fred's favourite antique fair which is held once a month on tabletops in a hall in central london. its quite a posh and select event and has gained a reputation, but the prices are mostly HIGH, because almost every trendy vendor is well-informed as well as desperate to make sales. Saw a lot of high priced amber, some being sold. after that i battled the tourists as i went around Camden lock market which is a few blocks from my home. of the hundreds of stalls, kiosks, booths and shops one next to another, all but a couple had the exact same type of souvenir stuff- mugs with pictures of london buses, t-shirts with predictable slogans, bizarre costumes, fridge magnets, smoking gear, harem pants, garments and bedspreads made in either north india or south america, etc etc and i know their main wholesale importer anyway so tedious and disappointing. -however the abundant choice of street food of every nationality is incredible. here is my haul from this morning- what i DID NOT buy because of high prices included 2 oriental strands- 1) a tassel necklace with a number of very large beads of red or black lacquer including abalone inlays in a pattern, 2) a broken string with a few real ivory carved Ojime type beads (one resembling a hare) and glass lampwork edo-style round beads, also metal, cinnabar, and a composition 2-face bead of the kind we have discussed here. what i show are WHAT I DID BUY: a boar's tusk, a choker of red Czech tetrahedron beads in coral colour glass, a choker length of pinched pink+avventurina Venetians, 2 necklaces both needing upcycling which are variants of the type of beads made with turquoise-coloured chips embedded in bitumen which may be from Kashmir, etc. and at the bottom, a rosary of lampwork beads of yellow glass that glow under UV light, and these each have small round dots of silver foil which is impressed with a texture, within the glass the bead is made of. They surely must be Czech too? the cross and the medallion are silver. Copyright 2024 All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users

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