Nevertheless, a couple of years ago I was browsing through the first issue of The Bead Journal--and noted that Robert Liu had misspelled it back in 1974, thirteen years prior to THoB. This is unexpected, since Robert spent his early years in Italy; and one might think he would know better.

JDA.

P.S. Nice beads!

This made me remember a funny anecdote from the 80s,my Poona times. We (several thousand?) were attending a face to face with Rajneesh aka Osho. Jesus teachings had recently been the subject of his talks and being questions&Answers day, one of us told him that after checking with his (the disciple's) Gospels edition, his (Rashneesh's) words were not accurately matching it.
He said:"Do correct your Gospels".
Nihil obstat: millefiore will from now on be MILLEFIORI, here, in Poona and in Roma.
Incidently, have you noticed that one of my millefiori cylinders (a larger one to the right) looks a lot like yours, including its patina? Please comment.

Of the seventeen beads you show, the right bead appears to be the closest to mine.

One thing that is not apparent is that my beads are somewhat smaller than the typical millefiori cylinder beads. This was a surprise to me when I opened the package.

So, perhaps, side-by-side it's possible the similarity might be lesser.

Here are some of my favorites.

Note that the bottom-most cylinder has a blank spot where there is just solid yellow glass instead of a mille. Must have run out of murrini at the last moment on that one!

JDA.