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Peculiar eye beads on Mali "dig beads" strand
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Posted by: beadiste

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04/22/2016, 08:38:09

Re: the white bead with tiny rosetta cane eyes

I remember seeing something about this particular bead somewhere... sometime... but cannot relocate the info.

The other bead in the photo appears to be an old glass ring bead with two eyes.

Anybody know anything about these? The consensus on these Mali beads is that they're circa 1400s or later?

Jamey's remarks on these "flush eye" and a speo beads + examples from Thomas
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Posted by: beadiste

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04/30/2016, 15:14:09

http://beadcollector.net/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi?fvp=/openforum/&cmd=get&cG=5353838343&zu=3535383834&v=2&gV=0&p=

Another pic of an "a speo" mate?
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Posted by: beadiste

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05/02/2016, 16:30:44

Another bead on this strand has an "a speo" look to it - not a wound bead, but it has a little tag of glass with a granular tip. Same odd matte "porcelain" glass as the bead with the small rosetta cane eyes and the ones in Thomas's picture from a former thread.

So these seem rather interesting, as they're definitely not the usual big "a speo" beads.

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