Bohemian Vintage Glass, Collector/Designer Set of 5 Beads
SKU: AFE-688
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$7.50
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold by the set of 5 beads
- Vintage, or possibly antique, Bohemian beads from the African trade
- Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) had a very active glassmaking industry in the 1800s, which included buttons and eventually many trade beads
- Intrepid agents of the manufacturers travel around west and northwest Africa collection information about what kinds of beads the people liked. The beadmakers then developed was to imitate the favored beads, originally made of stone or organic materials, in less expansive molded glass. This led to new exciting clear glass, and colors as well as an expanded array of shapes until the early 1900s when this trade died out during, or shortly after, World War i.