The bright millefiori on the left: Venetian from the W. African trade, early 20th c.
The brown Venetian trail-decorated barrel could be a bit earlier, late 19th. C.

There is a way to keep all of your posts together in one thread. It's pretty simple. After you make your first post, you just open it again and hit "reply", and then post again. And do this each time you post again. Then you will have a group of posts on the same general topic. Without doing that, your posts will inevitably wind up out of order and not together.

Collecting beads is very gratifying AND addictive. For beads from the African trade, I strongly suggest getting the Picard series of books on beads from the W. African trade. The whole series, vol. 3 - 7, can be had for the price of a small handful of collectible beads these days!