Here's another special treat that we had in Tucson - the opportunity to be up close and personal with an incredibly rare Venetian bead, worn casually on a necklace by Walter Chavez, a collector and seller from Toronto, via Peru, his homeland. The bead is about 1 1/4" diameter, and is a milky ball of glass with a variety of Venetian millefiori cane slices that appear to be floating in the sphere. I believe only 3-4 of these are known to exist.

Others took pictures of the bead which may be better than this one. I'm sure they will post when they get back home. The second pic is of Walter (on the left), who is attending Tucson for the first time. He confessed to being staggered by the quantity of beads available at this annual festival. Matt from TigerTiger is on the right.