Fred has some beads on the trades page that are Chinese and purported to be Ming Dynasty. As Fred and I know most anything that could be old is called Ming by the Chinese sellers. I got some of these wonderful beads from Fred toward future work about a six weeks ago. The images below are of the beads Fred sent.

I sent images of the beads to Art and Thomas, both got back to me that they had never seen beads like this. Art said that when he saw how large the tube beads were, being what looks like lamp wound he said it was quite the feat just making the beads.

All my best ....... Danny