Original Message:   History of Beads, page 179
"Following Admiral Perry's arrival in 1853, traffic in glass beads expanded as part of a general increase in Japanese export manufacturing. By the 1870s, Japanese beadmakers were traveling to Austria, Italy, and India to learn modern manufacturing techniques." Copyright 2024 All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users

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