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I especially enjoyed the one with the dogs, and the beautiful young girl.

Plus the interesting assortment of beads, of course. What's the yellow round one supposed to be? And the brown disc?

the yellow one is an agate bead and the disc is made of burl wood (button?)
they both are from Nepal actually

The "Girls in the Teahouse" image is beautiful~

And the picture of the "Bead Lover" is worth a thousand words…
He reminds me of the sweet Tibetan bead dealers who have told me
that their new Chinese beads are "Antique Tibetan." -Ninety percent,
or more, of the beads he is wearing have been made in China recently.

In today's market, dealers are taking antique beads to China and Tibet
to try to sell them to the locals -especially amber and coral.

Good luck shopping in Tibet~
Just Fred

of the beads he wore are new beads
and for the real old one they always ask a price out of imagination

When I first looked at the photo of him,I didn't even question that they would be old beads. Once I read Fred's & your comments that these were all new beads, & I relooked at the picture, it was obvious. But they wear them so beautifully & authentically with those long wonderful strands that it almost doesn't matter.
Thank you for sharing all your pictures! Loved them. Lynne