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Please, can you help me to identify these beads...of 2 necklaces
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Posted by: kika

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01/25/2016, 07:08:03

I bought this first necklace on the market of Maroua in north Cameroon: it was undoubtedly wear, you can see the thread and the beads are dirty of soil. But I don't know from where come these beads. They were not very common on the market, they don't seem very old. I don't think they are venetian or Czech or else (India, China....). What do you think about its, please?

kika

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Posted by: kika

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01/25/2016, 07:15:38

the second necklace was not directly wear, but the beads were used. We can think it is fake coral beads? I don't know what it is. What do you think about it too?

kika

Second necklace probably Czech. A kind of Plastic?
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Posted by: Hans

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01/25/2016, 07:26:37

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Posted by: kika

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01/25/2016, 07:36:34

No, it's absolutely not a kind of plastic, it's...I don't know.... glass, I guess, but no plastic. Possible india, I don't know. And the first: you think it is from India too?

kika

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Posted by: Hans

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01/25/2016, 07:40:52

The first necklace India, The second I really think Czech, also if they are made of glass.

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Posted by: Hans

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01/28/2016, 07:45:16

The first necklace India, The second I really think Czech, also if they are made of glass.

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Posted by: Hans

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01/25/2016, 07:22:55

The first necklace. Positive modern India,

Modified by Hans at Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 07:37:48

Yes, thank you Hans! I think so too. Definitively India
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Posted by: kika

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01/25/2016, 08:56:14

kika

Could be as old as 1980's, so enough time to get dirty...
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Posted by: Rosanna

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01/25/2016, 07:40:21

Yes, from India (first strand).

both necklaces ID
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Posted by: Stefany

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01/25/2016, 07:53:09

the first beads are fairly recently made in India, the second one is made of Prosser moulded glass to look like coral twigs. i have more than one necklace of this type-

Thank you Rosanna and Stefany!
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Posted by: kika

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01/25/2016, 09:06:42

yes! it's a rather long time to become dirty!!!The only interest that they were used by a woman somewhere! I think, with this soil, it becomes, maybe, from Namibia.....worn by a Himba woman!!!

kika

picture of second necklace clean
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Posted by: judy

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01/25/2016, 11:04:26

Yes Judy, the same!
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Posted by: kika

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01/25/2016, 12:19:17

kika

Czech Prosser beads
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Posted by: floorkasp

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01/25/2016, 12:46:04

These are Czech Prosser beads, indeed made to resemble coral. They used to be made in the Redlhammer factory in Jablonec.

These pictures show two different strands of Czech coral lookalike beads, one is like yours. Second picture is where I found them: in the garden of the apartment in Jablonec we were staying at.

Are some of my Secret Santa beads in that second pic?? :^)
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Posted by: Luann Udell

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01/27/2016, 18:54:13

Luann Udell artist & writer Ancient stories retold in modern artifacts LuannUdell.com

No, but close....
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Posted by: floorkasp

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01/28/2016, 01:26:54

The pictures above are Czech Prosser beads. Yours were French Prosser beads, made in Briare. I dug them from a massive dumpsite near the old factory.

I love your stories of going there
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Posted by: birdi

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01/28/2016, 22:09:22

Thanks Floorkasp!
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Posted by: kika

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01/29/2016, 00:54:27

Ah! yes, interesting, it's completely possible. But are they from beginning 20th (1930/50)? I think so, I don't know if we make always beads in Briare.
thank so much Floorskap
Kika

kika

You can read more about it....
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Posted by: floorkasp

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01/29/2016, 13:06:10

In my book 'Beads from Briare'. It is available for a free download.