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The brown Camp Fire Girls beads were in great demand. They were for outdoors, so anything we did related to hiking, camping, nature, animals and plants earned us brown beads. Sometime in the mid to late 1960s there was a brown bead shortage. A group leader from the Covina/West Covina area went out and bought a bunch of brown wooden bead necklaces from a shop so the girls would have their beads. These brown beads of a different shape appeared on some of the girl's gowns. I remember seeing them, commenting, and hearing the story. A few years ago I was bidding on CFG beads on Ebay. This one lot contained some bumpy brown beads from the Covina group. The bidding went crazy on those and I didn't win. Guess what, I now know they are a type of ojime bead. All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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