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August 30, 2022. As mention a shirt time ago in another message, I have been assured that there is a factory in Afghanistan that is making glass beads, that nominally are intended to be copies of ancient beads. Though, in fact, they share more in-common with fakes that are said to be "Syrian." There are also some Javanese beads that are somewhat similar. I first saw the Afghan beads at Jatajak Market in Bangkok in 2008. A year before the present post was presented. They were misrepresented as "ancient"—though it was obvious they were new. I wanted to buy a sample collection, but the Afghan seller was asking almost ancient bead prices. (Meaning just too expensive for what they obviously were.) It was several years before I managed to acquire one of these combed beads, at Tucson—also from an Afghan seller. By the way, "gabri" as an indicator is rather worthless. It is mostly used to indicate multi-colored beads of various unrelated types. And it is usually said that these beads are "ancient"—though many are new. Unfortunately Afghans do not know much about glass beads, and do not classify them in any way. These are all "old" to them. Given the number of Afghani and Pakistani members of my Groups at Facebook, it is my hope that they will take opportunities to learn more about beads—old and new/recent. JDA. All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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