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greatings Bob
when i said recently, i ment last 10 to 50 years, :) , i am attaching some photos of the same beads and i will go into details for you.
The main distribuitor for the factory in Gujerat is a shop named Amrapali, located on M.I. road in Jaipur, Rajastan. Amrapali is one of the richest family in the area, and they deal in mostly etnic indian silver, gold, agate, cornelian, etc...
The reason i tell you that because i know for sure, i been in the factory, as you can imaging what is an indian factory, it's a family bussines.
Where still are using old metods to cut polish and manufacture beads, as they did for the last milenius... that's why they look "autentic".
How they arrive to Tibet? My wife have been dealing with many tibetians for the 8 years she left in Himalayas, and there is a large comunity of tibetans who exchange merchendise mostly from the Rotan Pass(5000 mt higth) and the Spity valley, to Tibet, and vicervers. And they came to Rajastan, Jaipur to get there staff. Mostly the merchendaise is carry by indians to New Delhi where the tibetans has a large comunity and bring it to there home.
All the best
Yankee
PS. please look at the black staff which is into the holes and lines of the beads, is the same as yours.
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