Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Short Cylinders Yellow/Green Swirl w/ Red Star, Sold Individually

SKU: JSD-1237
Sale price $5.00

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Description

  • These beads are priced and sold individually
  • Composed entirely of green and yellow glass swirled together (without a core) these are unusual, and possibly early millefiori beads.
  • Each 9x15mm bead has 4 six-pointed red star murrine embedded around the permitter of the bead
  • Made in Venice, Italy late 1800s to early 1900s for the African trade
  • From the collection of Joyce Diamanti, bead researcher, writer and editor