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"Russian" trade beads in colors other than dark blue
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Posted by: beadiste

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04/04/2019, 09:43:35

Sorting through my box of these, I wondered:

Is the current consensus that these are mostly pre-World War I beads, dating to the second half of the 19th century, or from the 1830s at the earliest?

Or did their manufacture continue into the 1920s-30s?

When did machine molding/faceting/firepolishing take over from the impoverished small home grinding wheels that produced faceted cane beads?

Modified by beadiste at Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 09:44:28

The colorless glass bead on the right, as seen in the Picard exhibit of sample card beads
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Posted by: beadiste

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04/04/2019, 09:51:20

http://www.picardbeads.com/exhibit8/exhibit/pr23.html

[LATER: As Karlis notes, this is a pressed glass bead, not a "Russian."]

PicardExhibitSampleCardBeads.jpg (17.9 KB)

Related link: http://www.picardbeads.com/exhibit8/exhibit/pr23.html
Modified by beadiste at Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 10:39:50

Re: The colorless glass bead on the right, as seen in the Picard exhibit of sample card beads
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Posted by: Karlis

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04/04/2019, 10:18:27

I really don't think this qualifies as "Russian." It is a cornerless cube and appears to be mold-pressed as opposed to drawn which is what Russian beads are.

Agreed. Not all the beads pictured are "Russians." Some, for instance, are walrus ivory.
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Posted by: beadiste

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04/04/2019, 10:36:51

I strung the pressed bead with the "Russians" because I like the combination, and it's a neat old bead.

Technically, because it has 12 sides (10 + two ends), it's a dodecahedron, not a cornerless cube. That zigzag equator is typical of a dodecahedron.

Modified by beadiste at Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 10:43:15

A closer look at the dodecahedral pressed bead
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Posted by: beadiste

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04/04/2019, 10:51:41

An arrangement of 12 pentagonal facets + a zigzag equator are the clues.

It has the same conical type hole as "vaseline" beads - i.e, bigger at one end, smaller at the other.

Modified by beadiste at Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 10:55:24

These are some of my favorites from the Czech / Bohemian bead tradition
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Posted by: Rosanna

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04/04/2019, 11:00:39

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