Hi Dannoh! Nice to see you back on the forum.
I love the big, bold red Burma WH's - I also have a nice necklace in the orange version.
Those beads of yours made me drool. Howdy back at you too.Lots of new names here at BCN.
These beads are going up in price lately. I have some in blue too.
Happy Holidays to all at BCN.
Hey Rosanna....I just started reading your article on Foux amber.
Holy Cow..........You have earned the right to wear a LAB COAT full time.
It won't be long before we'll have to start calling you
Dr. Rosanna...
Great work, Answers lots of questions I have had about this stuff. Gr8
photos too.
When I left I know you were looking for information about this stuff.
I didn't think I had been away for so long that you could write a book.
I'm getting old too fast.
Gr8 job. This is one I'll read several times. gr8 plot d:~>
Thanks for helping us all out and I'm sure this will be standard reading
at Starfleet command.
Thanks for your kind and generous comments, and glad you liked the article.
You have "outed" me - I got into the history of phenolic resins and beads in great detail since I have Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering (basically, plastics) and I actually spent a large part of my career in industrial and government labs, wearing a white lab coat...still have a few of them as mementos.
I worked with phenolic resins for aerospace applications during my career. One day, after getting deeply involved in collecting old glass trade beads, I spotted a woman at a bead show who was wearing some intricately carved phenolic resin beads. When I realized they were phenolic, I got really interested in where they came from and where they originated, and started my research. Still don't have the answer to the big question of WHEN this particular faux amber arrived in Africa and WHERE in Europe they were made for export to Africa. A lot of people have opinions but I look for documented evidence.
The information I'm currently looking at involves trade to the French West African port of Dakar, which appears to have been the gateway for goods flowing into Mali and Mauritania (French Sahara)- the areas where the carved and decorated phenolic beads are found. The answers are out there, somewhere, maybe in old shipping manifests.
Best regards,
Rosanna
Science ROCKS....My wife is a Chemical toxicologist. I'll have to ask her if these chemicals have any human health risk....Ha-ha..
Blind us with science...
Thanks Dr. Rosanna.
in the white cores of some of them. Curious.....