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Posted by: TASART Post Reply
10/14/2019, 09:20:20

Hi, I'm mainly looking for information on the Malachite glass beads and the smaller Chinese crumb beads......Thanks

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Re: Looking for info on these types -- TASART Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: odan Post Reply
10/14/2019, 10:33:36

So...I've sold a ton of these fake agate beads.
I was told they were made in the middle East...poss Iran.
They go way back and can be over 1,000yrs old.
They come in brown,green,blue and pink. Maybe even more colors then that.
They are pricy on the bead market.
The white speckled ones look like Peking glass to me.
I'm sure you'll get some more valuable information as time goes by.
Hope this helps a little.



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Posted by: Beadman Post Reply
10/14/2019, 15:14:16

I suppose that most of these beads were made at Boshan, China, in the 20th C. The green beads, clearly, were made to imitate malachite. Odan has mistaken these for a series of older European trade beads, that have been discussed here many times (by me). I think we can take, for granted, that the Chinese beads were inspired by the European beads. Which would mean they post-date the trade beads. Also, an important factor is that the European beads are lampworked. Until the Boshan industries were devised and operating, the Chinese did not perform lampwork. (This is an approach they either learned from Germans who were local residents; or from the Japanese overseers who controlled Boshan glassworking until their expulsion.)

The white beads with multi-colored spots are very clearly Boshan lampwork beads.

Jamey



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