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Original Message: "Dutch" Beads

Here's a message I posted at Trade Bead Talk on September 22, 2004, on the topic of "Dutch" beads. I'll add the photos when I can get to my photo archive. Jamey
Dear Members,
I have just returned from Amsterdam, where I was studying Dutch beads at two locations. I now have some amazing new information about beads made in Holland and found in Holland, that I will be presenting in the coming weeks and months.
To begin, I have made a new Folder called DUTCH TRADE BEADS, and the first images in it are of a necklace in the Liese Collection (soon for The Bead Museum), composed of both wound and drawn Dutch beads. Mrs. Liese acquired this necklace some twenty years ago from Herman van der Made (a collector and author who did a booklet for G. B. Fenstermaker in the 1970s). Upon seeing it, I was reasonably convinced it has authenticate 17th or early 18th century Dutch beads—both wound and drawn. Now that I have seen a great quantity of archaeological material at Amsterdam, I am positive of this assertion.
Among bead collectors, there is considerable confusion about what beads may be "Dutch" and even what that name means or implies. Because Holland was an important entrepot in the 17th century, many beads—including Venetian beads—passed through Amsterdam on their way to world-wide distribution. So, not everything found in Holland is "Dutch" in origin. But, the real problem is that MANY later wound (and drawn) glass beads are routinely misidentified as being "Dutch" when they are usually either Bohemian or German (or even Venetian), and date from the 19th or 20th centuries. (This is too late for real Dutch beads.)
Consequently, my recent goal has been to look very carefully at beads that have the best potential to be actual Dutch beads from the 17th and 18th centuries (during which beads were made in Holland, but not earlier nor later), and to show them for the benefit of collectors everywhere. The current necklace is a good start, and I will continue to add specimens to this Folder, once I get film back and digital images edited.
Have a great bead-collecting week.
Jamey
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Original Message: "Dutch" Beads
Here's a message I posted at Trade Bead Talk on September 22, 2004, on the topic of "Dutch" beads. I'll add the photos when I can get to my photo archive. Jamey Dear Members, I have just returned from Amsterdam, where I was studying Dutch beads at two locations. I now have some amazing new information about beads made in Holland and found in Holland, that I will be presenting in the coming weeks and months. To begin, I have made a new Folder called DUTCH TRADE BEADS, and the first images in it are of a necklace in the Liese Collection (soon for The Bead Museum), composed of both wound and drawn Dutch beads. Mrs. Liese acquired this necklace some twenty years ago from Herman van der Made (a collector and author who did a booklet for G. B. Fenstermaker in the 1970s). Upon seeing it, I was reasonably convinced it has authenticate 17th or early 18th century Dutch beads—both wound and drawn. Now that I have seen a great quantity of archaeological material at Amsterdam, I am positive of this assertion. Among bead collectors, there is considerable confusion about what beads may be "Dutch" and even what that name means or implies. Because Holland was an important entrepot in the 17th century, many beads—including Venetian beads—passed through Amsterdam on their way to world-wide distribution. So, not everything found in Holland is "Dutch" in origin. But, the real problem is that MANY later wound (and drawn) glass beads are routinely misidentified as being "Dutch" when they are usually either Bohemian or German (or even Venetian), and date from the 19th or 20th centuries. (This is too late for real Dutch beads.) Consequently, my recent goal has been to look very carefully at beads that have the best potential to be actual Dutch beads from the 17th and 18th centuries (during which beads were made in Holland, but not earlier nor later), and to show them for the benefit of collectors everywhere. The current necklace is a good start, and I will continue to add specimens to this Folder, once I get film back and digital images edited. Have a great bead-collecting week. Jamey Copyright 2024 All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users

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