I recently bought in a auction in France a necklace with those pumtek beads. Thoses beads have been strung with North African pendants, but the previous owner was a great ethnic jewelry collector. It's the first time I have pumtek beads in my hands.

I searched in the forum and found a lot of discussions about those beads, but I'm still wondering how to recongnize old ones from new ones.

My beads have been drill on both side, the hole is not straight, I can see when I move the hole in the light.

Could you help me please.