Thank you for your response which is quite instructive, so all these beads would come from the same source in Indoesia?

Would you also please advise what would be the range of price to be paid for these beads if they were authentic ancient beads, this would tell me if i have bee ripped off or not, :)

I do have other beads which i will get to the forum to get the valuable expertise from you, this will assist in building up my knowledge on the beads and give an idea of what i am collecting.