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Hi Rosanna, Since I collected beads in the (late) 1960s and '70s, and later, I can say with confidence that the vast majority of glass beads from India (and Pakistan)—not that there were so many—were small plain crude furnace-wound beads. Many were sub-spheroidal oblates and rings, and in limited colors in the '60s/early '70s. In 1974 multicolored furnace-wound beads were introduced. these were larger, less crude, and had more shape varieties (barrels, longer fusiforms, and press-molded angular shapes). The first appearance of mosaic-glass beads was 1980. These included bad copies of Venetian beads, more-attractive flower beads supposedly to resemble ancient millefiori, and the first wave of face beads. I would not characterize the beads you show as "older." In fact, they my be fairly recent. Necklaces of Indian glass with African-inspired brass pendants are something of a chimera. Peter Francis' booklet on The Glass Beads Of India (1979) demonstrates the beads he collected in India at that time. Jamey All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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