Green Heart Beads, Antique Venetian Trade Beads, 4x5mm on 22-inch Strand
SKU: AFS-327
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$29.00
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Description
- Small green heart beads 4x5mm on 22-inch strand
- These antique Venetian trade beads are brown on the outside with a wine bottle green core. They served as currency in both east and west Africa from the 1700s on through to around 1950.
- They are precursors or and related to the famous White Heart beads that feature a white core with usually red or orange exterior.
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Like white hearts aka Cornaline D’Aleppos, green hearts were made specifically for world trade. Transported by ship and pack animal and exchanged with local people for natural resources, these beads were used in much of Africa.
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Because green hearts also were traded in North America for furs and other goods, some call them Hudson’s Bay trade beads.
- Only one available