Original Message:   NEW Chinese Millefiori?

Hi Chris, Looking at the link to Steve Dunning's page, I would suspect that many of the beads shown are pretty new, and not the early-20th C. beads they formerly sold (that were very pricey when I bought some about four or five years ago). They are not even the revival beads from the late 1980s! Two or three years ago, I bought a strand of brand new similar-looking beads at a store in Santa Monica. The whole strand was quite inexpensive, and the beads do not resemble the old beads in details. Even the canes look different—like a new batch. The beads I bought look just like the ellipsoidal sky-blue beads Steve shows on that page. It's too bad Steve refers to these as "Peking glass," since this is a name that has been out of favor for over twenty years..., and anyway they are made in Boshan. Jamey Copyright 2024 All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users

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