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Hi Carl, Breccia is the name for certain minerals, such as jasper, that have been broken-up and cemented back together (by nature), with a mineral of another color. The Venetians devised a technique for imitating this effect by fusing together jagged pieces of one glass in a matrix of another. It's not so unusual to find these glasses as the centers of millefiori canes. I'm somewhat surprised you have not noticed them before. In the early 20th C., Venetians mad lots of imitations of semi-precious stones in mosaic-glass, that were used for inlays—as for furniture and the like. An author named Mariacher wrote about this practice. I cite him in my mosaic-glass article. My article may have included some mention of these canes, though they are not included in the classification specimens. But, in any event, I discuss them in my lectures on same. Jamey All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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