Thanks for all the images! I wish I had seen them before I published the last installment of the frit-core bead saga in BEADS. It would have been nice to have representatives from Africa.

Some of the beads are rather crude in their manufacture and I wonder if some of them are local African products mimicking earlier European ones? Unfortunately, can't tell too much from the pics.

I think it might be of interest to write a short article on the African varieties and I wonder if those of you who posted images would allow me to use them in the article (with credit to you)? You can write me direct at karlis4444@gmail.com.