Re: CHECK the clear beads
Re: in situ -- karavanserai Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: AnneLFG Post Reply
10/08/2015, 02:14:02

As far as I can tell from afar, and after looking at these beads unstrung later in the post..the beads appear not so much "melon" but the modified melon design that is represented in the clear beads you (Karavanserai) have posted, as well as in the first post by K showing both opaque blue and opaque yellow beads- though not as obvious. I'm looking at the obvious wear on these beads in the unstrung state and although I'd have to examine in person I would agree with OP's Mom that they are old. What's confusing is looking at them as perhaps a melon bead that has had the "equator" area grooves worn down through age/wear and tear. If it is more like the modified melon design (for lack of better description) clear blue melon style shown in Karavanserai's post above, there never were medial/equatorial grooves, and therefore this is confusing as far as any age/wear assessment/assumption.

Edit: Found BCN post 2013 Chinese Glass beads-see link:http://beadcollector.net/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi?fvp=/openforum/&cmd=iYz&aK=94824&iZz=94824&gV=0&kQz=&aO=1&iWz=0#94824

Noted on the opaque turquoise melon beads in the photo posted by Jake of Nomad Designs in 2013 that the depressed "lines" on the beads vary even on the same bead- some go all the way from hole to hole, some are just peripheral impressions that don't meet in the middle and are even "offset" (you couldn't draw a line between the two and have it be straight).

BEAD MAKERS: How were these beads made? They look lamp wound?, but how do they incise the melon grooves? By hand??

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