Re: Please, Help!
Re: Please, Help! -- Dog Bone Crazy Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: Joyce Mail author
07/25/2014, 21:47:49

Hi Thomas,

I'm curious about the greyish horizontal patterns on yours, consistent with unintentional "patterns" from when the glass was wound around a mandrel.

I'm bending my brain right now trying to remember the "market name" for these, but I believe they were traded in New Guinea and into Indonesia.

They have been often accepted as Chinese, but I have seen very, very similar beads on Venetian sample cards, too, so in imho, they could have been made at either...or both...places.....any conclusive evidence, anyone?

Here is a similar one or two on Picards Conterie sample card # 32.

I promise to participate more this weekend!

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