Thank you for bringing this up. I had not known that at least some vendors of Czech glass beads believe there is some justification for incorrectly labeling some as 'Peking glass'.

In my book this is meant to justify deception. At very least, it is meant to justify and continue ignorance! Such vendors as continue this practice are not going to tell buyers 'we call these Peking Glass because they are often called that even though we know they are not Peking Glass'.

If at some time there were a manufacturer's trade-name or line-of-goods using that term, then one could say 'this was made by X company in Czechoslovakia under the trade name Peking Glass'. This would be full disclosure. But this is not what your source appears to be saying.

Here is a picture of the kind of thing probably meant. I bought the inner strand in second-hand / 'antiques' shop decades ago; the vendor called it 'Peking Glass' even though clearly it is not. The color is intended to imitate fine green jadeite. Probably made ca. late 1950s ('sweater and pearls' era in USA). It has a kind of soft luminosity in the way light refracts through the translucent glass.

The outer strand is a rather humorous take-off on the 'jadeite-imitation' theme, same color glass, perhaps made mid-1960s for fashionable hippiedom.

I also attach another strand of beads with similar refractive quality, in a magenta color also used for 1960s fake 'cranberry glass' (imitating glass tableware of late 19th century to World War I in US). I saw some pieces of the fake 'cranberry glass' with molded-in 'Made in Hong Kong' mark. The bead strand hook has 'Italy' impressed, but the glass or beads might not have been made in Italy.

Thank you again, Lyn.

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