I got the strand about 3-4 years ago, and I trust the collector to know where he was when, but attribution is a different matter. This was his only bead strand, so as to bead origins, I would guess he just asked someone and was given a safe, general answer. His ethnographic money descriptions were generally consistent with what was believed of these objects at the time.

For some reason I am getting blanks when I click on your messages with the annotated photo, but I will try again later and review your comments. It is the plain ones such as the four bright blue and two dull green near them that I suspected as Asian, but was curious whether any of the really fancy ones were also. The best image is the one I posted in the first follow-up post, but it may be difficult to work with and re-post. Other than yourself, no one I have shown it to has gone into detail as to which or how many were Asian, but what I took from general comments by those whom I trust was that the great majority are Venetian.

I am beginning to appreciate why, looking at sample cards, I recognize only a tiny fraction of what I see from my limited experience (and powers of recall!) with the Africa trade beads. Different markets, different demands. And perhaps there were trial balloons that made it to sample cards, and died there for lack of interest, hence rare "in nature" today.