today Sönke visited me with his bell-pull (and some very nice beads...), and the used beads are not as different as in my memory (I thought the beads were much darker...), but as mine all beads are hexagonal in cross-section. His one is 210cm long (wow - high rooms at this time!) and 10cm in diameter. The long milky tubes at the bottom are 7cm long and the tubes in the middle of the bell-pull are gold colored from inside.
Would love to see Waltrad Neuwirth's book 'Perlen aus Gablonz', but the prices I have found are behind my limits...:-)
So, Carole, maybe you find some images of other examples...?
Warm Regards
Uwe