I tend to agree with you Jamey though having just returned from Indonesia and having collected beads there since 1989 I must say the fakes are really getting good and it is the first time dealers have told me the story(maybe i was told just dismissed it).Perhaps it is coincidental but those they say are old glass are much better colour and often they are fused to an ancient monochrome jatim core- for sure the core is old-whether or not the mosaic on top is I am not so sure. I wait to hear from someone more knowlegable than myself.I must also say the only a tiny fraction of the beads i viewed were claimed to be of old glass.Regards Andrew