Original Message:   Re: Jatim blue hexagonal bicones

Hi Alex, Yes, you've caught exactly what I feel with these old beads too: I can't help imagining the amazement that ordinary people must have felt when they saw these coloured glass beads for the first time. We take glass so for granted now, but 2,000 years ago it must have been quite miraculous. I think the main motivation for the new bottle-glass beads must have been the tourist market in Bali. Later perhaps, some enterprising individual saw an opening for them in Africa. There's nothing so surprising about that. The history of beads has always been driven by market pressures. Best wishes, Will Copyright 2024 All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users

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