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Posted by: metateman Post Reply
07/01/2019, 15:38:23

Hello to the group

First picture has mini bi-cone barrel/tube and the cone shaped beads. Cone bead are 16 x 14 mm

What is the proper name for the cone shaped beads?? Also again where do these beads come from India or Burma.

2nd picture smallest bead is 11 x 6mm . Bear on lower right is natural banding. The small bead with clear and white lines may be natural.

Approx age please.

all comments welcome
sincerely from
Walter Anderson

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Re: Decorated Carnelian Striped Beads
Re: 2 more groups small etched carnelian -- metateman Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: Beadman Post Reply
07/01/2019, 16:18:59

It would be best if the designation "etched" were dropped from our vocabulary for these beads—unless it's placed in quotes (to express that the name is incorrect).

Cylindrical/long-barrel pale carnelian beads with discrete white stripes are fairly common among beads from the Greater Himalayan region. Those from my collections are mostly from Nepal.

Attached is the chart presented by Horace Beck in 1933, showing the decorated agate (mostly carnelian) beads he had documented. The specimens are divided into three periods. You can see that beads with horizontal stripes were known to date from the Early and Middle Periods. Now, I am reasonably certain they would also be included in the Late Period (and more-recent period, if there were such a thing).

I would say these beads are ca. 2,000 years old + or -.

I don't know of a name for the conical beads, though I am very familiar with them; and they probably derive from the Late Period (and more recently).

I think one of your beads has natural banding (lower right) (You can see a similar bead in my Plate III.) But it is very likely that all of these beads have, at least, been heat-treated. I suppose the bead above it is more-likely also chemically decorated. But this is difficult to be certain of from a small photo.

JDA.

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All I can say is wow.
Re: Re: Decorated Carnelian Striped Beads -- Beadman Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: metateman Post Reply
07/01/2019, 18:41:54

Hello again

This is really nice to be learning so much information in a short time. I wish I could have found your site earlier.
I will post the rest of my Zi beads in a few days.

again thanks for everything
sincerely from
Walter



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Re: All I can say is wow. -- metateman Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: Beadman Post Reply
07/01/2019, 23:56:14

Hello Walter. BCN is not my site (!). I am just an occasional contributor here. But I do manage four Yahoo Groups, and a few more at FaceBook.

Be well. Jamey



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