Original Message:   Re: Imitation Frit Core beads from the African trade possibly Indian origin

these oval-ish beads appear to me to resemble fairly recent furnace-wound beads from India with decoration designs of lines and dots on the surface created not with canes of molten opaque glass but more like patterns of granules in contrasting white - carefully spread on the (metal) working table surface and picked up by the bead before the glass cools and solidifies. will look for images of similar... Copyright 2024 All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users

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