Beautiful bead.

Hello Danny

Nice looking bead. Is the stone agate?? Can you please show the holes

From Walter

Walter if I knew what case it is in. I took this image years ago and have five roll around cases that we used to take to the Tucson show when we were selling. I may have an image of the hole when I took this image I will look and if I find one I will post it.
All my best...........Danny

I would say the stone it Orbicular Jasper

Hello Danny

I hope to have some new beads to share in the next few days. Another variety of eye beads from SEA.
I like your bead.

Hello BCN

I just received these 4 beads today
The bicone is 16 mm x 50mm
the 4 eyed round bead is approx 23mm x 10mm
the smaller 2 eyed bead is 24mm x 21mm x 12mm
The larger 2 eyed bead is 31mm x 28mm x 9mm

The 2 eyed and 4 eyed beads are from Burma
The bicone was most likely traded in to Burma

All opinions welcome.
Enjoy the picture

I will post a few more beads later this weekend
sincerely from Walter

Very nice beads, Walter, especially the lower right, which is quite rare.

W.

That really is an amazing bead, Danny. I don't remember ever seeing one quite like it with such regular eyes.

Here are a couple of my own favourites. The first is from Central Asia. The second was found in Northern Burma near Halin.

Cheers,

Will

Hello Will

Very nice looking beads
Please tell us the sizes and can you please post pics of the holes
Again very nice
Sincerely from Walter

I don't have pics of the bead from Burma and it's at my home in Thailand right now. It's just over 5 cm.Here's a photo of the hole on the other one, from Central Asia; it's about 29 mm and has a nice bulk to it.

W.

Beautiful beads thank you for posting. Danny

And of course there are so many etched/decorated stone beads with multiple eyes, though they're not what you really meant, Danny.

The first is from the Indus Valley. When I showed it here once before, I suggested the decoration referred to the seven stars of the Pleiades, but they can also be eyes. Certainly in later Islamic iconography eyes and stars frequently overlap.

The second is a micro-bead about 6mm across. I called it an un-Zi, tongue in cheek, because it's black on white (Beck's Type 2 category), whereas Zi of course are generally white on black or brown. It has three large eyes one of which has a dot in the centre. It comes from one of the sites in Burma where ancient pumteks have been found, but it's not pumtek material - a very pretty little bead, I think. I have another from the same site, black on white, three eyes again with the eyes as part of a scroll pattern, but it's not here with me and I don't have the photo.

W.

Some types friends

Best,
Greg

One of the occasional qualities I like in stone beads is when there's an irregularity in the texture of the stone, between one seam in the agate and another. I don't know the correct terminology for this, or the explanation. I'm sure Danny or Jamey or Frank will be able to tell me.

Anyway, it's what there is in the centre of the eyes in this bead that I'm attaching; again from Central Asia.

Cheers,

Will

yeah it would be well to know a name for the phenomenon if ones been pegged.

Greg

The term for that is 'druzy,' when one set of crystals forms over the top of another. Today we hear that term applied when the crystals are still bright and sparkly but it's still the correct term for this phenomenon.

Hello to BCN

Here are 4 eye beads from Burma. 3 are like a half bead and one is round

sizes 16mm x 11mm
round one approx 15mm
smallest is 14mm x 10mm
light color one 16mmx 11m

maybe this doesn't count because its carved?

hope this shows up-

Hi Stefany,
have you more information on this interesting bead?
can you show us the perforation?
Is it a Mezo- or South American bead?
Age? Kind of mineral?
Be well, hans

Hans-
i discovered that this 3-faced pale chalcedony bead with eyes incised using a circle-dot tool seems to me to be very similar to beads found in Syria, in Hababu Kabira, of 3rd millennium BC.
It is illustrated on p. 18 in my bead collectors book. it was bought by me quite a while ago with no information.
My collection of many items is unfortunately kept in my workshop which is currently locked up, not at home, so i'm using images already in my computer and i don't have a view from above showing the hole. Next time i can sneak a visit i may get it, but am obeying the stay-at-home advice now.
my son and daughter don't want to lose their kids' granny yet...

you can see a rougher example of this very type on the timeline in James Lankton's " A Bead Timeline, vol 1" at no 285, described on page 28 of his book.

eyes

eyes

The larger bow bead is just under 100mm
enjoy
from Walter

Hello Greg

I have been searching thru many records to see if records exist showing how the used these beads.

Pendants attached to the clothing or is there records of multi stone necklaces??

I would like to eventually to exhibit some of my beads individually and some composed into necklaces with carnelian and green quarts beads

If any BCN members can point me to some records detailing how the beads were used would be appreciated.

I have seen record of a bead found at the neck suggesting it was worn around the neck and others are found in various locations.

All input welcome from Walter