Russian Blue Beads, Antique Bohemian Trade Beads, Blues on 44-inch Strand
SKU: AFT-186
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$199.00
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Description
- This ultra-long 44-inch strand of Russian Blues from West Africa consists of 22 inches of 5x6mm short mostly round cylindrical medium blue mostly multi-layer beads, and 22 inches of larger, darker mostly hexagonal cylinder beads, also mostly multi-layer although the inter liter layers don't show through the opaque outer layer of glass.
- The smaller beads have 2mm holes, the larger ones have holes at least 3mm
- Made in Bohemia (now Czech Republic) between the 1820s and 1890s for worldwide trade mid- to late 1800s. Production peaked in the 1840s
- Russian Blue beads got their name because the were traded by Russian fur traders in Alaska, and along the north American west coast in mid-1800s