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Hello In UK beads like these are sometimes called Bristol Blue, as are other collectable items of this intense transparent deep blue glass, such as hollow rolling pins, etc! A brand of sherry, Harvey's Bristol Cream, even comes in blue bottles. The same shapes and sizes are found in milky yellow, clear, trans green and trans brown, as are what we call "Jug beads" the smaller oblates of the 1900's that appear on portieres or bead curtains and other suitable homecrafts for ladies, sometimes woven into handmade basketry. They are visibly less regular than the chinese ones or the padre beads, and Peter Francis guessed they were German or Bohemian, so these are very likely too. Unlike furnace-wound beads of today (India, Turkey, etc) they dont have any black residue in the hole. Stefany All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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