What Are These?
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Posted by: beadiste Post Reply
04/04/2014, 12:00:44

The striped beads with the spiral cores, that appear to be rolled up - does anyone know anything about them? They came on a string of beads from Africa, but which country I cannot recall, and the strand was disassembled years ago.

Under magnification the black glass appears a very strange translucent charcoal gray, with an odd greasy look, as if it were petroleum jelly or something.

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