Thank you, Joyce and Jan, for those fascinating examples. Just what I was hoping for!
Those amber beads (both lots) are stunning - to me they're more visually interesting with the repairs than they would be without. The repairs were made with silver, I assume? Can you tell me, please, where they're from and what date?
And Jan, when would that ivory repair to the chevron bead have been made?
(Sorry to ask all these questions. My knowledge of beads is at best patchy. Mainly I collect ceramics and bronzes, but I've gotten into beads almost by accident - a very happy accident - because I always try to trace artefacts back to their primary sources and functions, and beads and other jewelry are often found along with pottery in early southeast Asian burials.)
Jan, those repaired bracelets made me think of this one: "jade", for a child's wrist, 5cm across. The first time it broke it was repaired with gold; the second with green glass, possibly a bead (I've seen no other example of this and the heat of the glass seems to have damaged the stone around it). It's from a site not far from the one where the jade/gold bead I posted was dug up, but a bit later.
Will