Sorry I thought you were comparing your beads to those I posted and did not know you were just showing what they are up to today.

With modern China granted they can pretty much make anything and everything(some great some not so great), I honestly feel that if they were making beads such as Fred’s in modern times we all would have seen them by now at Tucson. Maybe this year there will ton’s of them at the show but I truly doubt it.

Unfortunately for me when I was in China in the eighties I had turquoise tunnel vision and only collected a few Jadite beads, better a few than none at all.

The brushes are quite large but the beads seem to balance them out nicely. I checked this type brush out online and found that this size is not uncommon, I also found that they are very collectible. I saw a video on you tube of a man using one that was nearly three feet long.

All my best ........... Danny

P.S. The attached image shows why I first went to China, some of the finest Turquoise to ever come out of Mother Earth.