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Antique fiorato beads???
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Posted by: Sammitenn

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04/02/2023, 09:18:48

Hi everyone, it’s been a minute. I have recently come across these charming Venetian beads, bought at an Italian antiques market.

Would anyone be able she’d any light on the time period? A fair number of them have some peculiar holes in them any ideas as to why they have occurred? I thought perhaps it was an age issue in that perhaps the making process hadn’t yet been refined.

Any comments are always welcome

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Posted by: Beadman

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04/04/2023, 08:45:16

Hello Sammi,

I would be more inclined to suspect these beads were cranked-out—and the unexpected holes are just burst air bubbles. So, rather than suspecting these might be "early," I suppose they were later, from the time that there was a market for this style of flower beads, and greater numbers of them were commissioned from cottage makers.

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Posted by: sammi_tenn

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04/05/2023, 01:28:13

Thank you bead man, I too did not think that they were super early because of the aventurine tracing, would you say that the use of aventurine started around the 30's????

Many thanks as always

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