Original Message: "Russian" trade beads in colors other than dark blue |
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Sorting through my box of these, I wondered: Is the current consensus that these are mostly pre-World War I beads, dating to the second half of the 19th century, or from the 1830s at the earliest? Or did their manufacture continue into the 1920s-30s? When did machine molding/faceting/firepolishing take over from the impoverished small home grinding wheels that produced faceted cane beads? All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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