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Hi, I'm Giorgio Teruzzi.I'm 56, live in Concorezzo, a small town near Milan, Italy, and from 1980 I'm working as a paleontologist at the Museum of Natural History of Milan. First time I looked with some interest to beads was in 1983, when I joined to a palethnological mission in western Mali. It was impossible not to notice beads in the markets, as many of you know, both coloured stone beads and colourful glass beads. In the '80s I wasn't a collector, and many of the beads I bought in those years were given as gifts to my friends. Slowly I became a collector, though very ignorant about beads; I began to read intensely about them in 2003, when I was asked to organize an exhibit of my collection in the small town where I live. So I realized I head to learn a lot to classify the material, avoid telltales and tell true and often very interesting histories that beads have. In 2007 I founded, together with some other bead lovers living in Milan metropolitan area, the "Compagnia delle Perle", a small bead society, the first in Italy. I'm a budget collector; my collection, which is obviously not a great one, comprises beads of every material, age and provenance.
My posting name, Napoleone, is the name of my father, which I lost just few weeks before subscribing to BCN.
The picture was taken in 2007, when my wife Silvana and me visited my homonym village of Teruzzi, few old houses on the top of the Appennine Mountains.
Ciao a tutti,
Giorgio
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