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Buehler Collection Beads 17 and 18 - ID Help Please
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Posted by: Jim Johnson Post Reply
02/09/2011, 13:25:39

Attached are photos of two beads from the Beuhler Columbia River Collection. Any help as to bead name/origin would be appreciated.
Bead 17 is a small amber-yellow bead that comes in the two shapes shown - round and ovoid.
Bead 18 is a 1/4" round transparent medium blue bead.

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Venetian ?
Re: Buehler Collection Beads 17 and 18 - ID Help Please -- Jim Johnson Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: Beadman Post Reply
02/09/2011, 18:17:31

Hello Jim,

Until challenged in the 19th C. by Bohemia/Chechoslovakia, Venice was the dominant glass-beadmaker for the world for nearly 500 years. Exceptions would have to be made in the 17th C. for Dutch beads—though their output may have been considerably smaller than that of Venice.

In the 18th C., the Dutch seem to have made some plain wound beads—including in a dark amber tone of brownish yellow. I could not rule-out Holland. By the same token, I can't rule-out China. I'd have to see the beads in real life (though I expect Chinese beads to have a white or pale mandrel-release compound in their perforations).

It is very difficult to identify plain wound glass beads.

Jamey



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