Karlis,
are the three beads on the two pictures "Fichtelmountain/Bavarian Beads", in your opinion?

Lays the only difference (aside from color, size and condition) between the bead on picture-1 and the two beads on picture-2 in different periods of production (like 19/20th century/pic-1 versus 18th century/pic-2)?

Or is the difference of the beads on both photos the result of different workshops? Different Bavarian "Paterl-Hütten"?

Or is maybe any of the three beads not a definite Fichtelmountain product?

How sure can we be and which other candidates, if any, could be (at least theoretically) responsible for production?

Is it possible to establish some Fichtelmountain timeline to see the progression in style of their wound beads? Could you show photos?

PS
Photos in follow-up post!

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Naturally, I haven't read your paper on Fichtelmountain beads as of yet. Some of the question posted below might have been answered in your article. Please excuse, if this posts strucks you as being nosy.