I´m walking on clouds today...Made myself an Easter gift with this beauty "egg". Took a week to decide, because of the high price, but I was definitely in love with it, so what, today I bought it...I guess it is an old Venetian fancy, maybe to copy a Bodom from Ghana. With 32 x 20mm it´s pretty large...for me the first and only one so far in real life, but there is a brother shown by the Picards at their online exhibit "A Pictorial Essay on Ghanaian Beads"

http://www.picardbeads.com/e_archive/archive2/exhibit/no74a.html

Happy Holidays