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Hi Carlene, Having viewed the collections of Dutch beads recovered in Holland, and particularly in this context the plain wound beads, I can say I have not seen any opaque yellow specimens, such as would have been made to resemble amber. These beads are most likely Venetian, and are from the 19th to 20th centuries. The yellow glass is virtually the same as the glass used to make "Hudson's Bay beads"—the red-on-yellow overlay beads (such as Joy shows in her post here), that are usually either spheroidal or cylindrical. The only "yellow" Dutch beads are those in the translucent brown group, that might be considered to slightly resemble amber. I do not doubt that other European industries also made plain wound yellow beads, similar to the Venetian types. However, not the Dutch, and not in the early 18th C. Jamey All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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