Millefiori Antique Venetian Trade Beads, Mini Bear Paw Design on White, Sold Individually
SKU: AFE-2279
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$3.00
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Only 11 in stock
Description
- These beads are priced and sold individually
- Tiny white beads with scattered slices of the classic "bear paw" design applied sparingly. The beads came from Africa, but similar ones traded to hunters and trappers on the American frontier by the Hudson Bay Company, earned the bear paw or bear claw and remain popular today among mountain men
- All of these tiny beads are in pristine condition. They're 10x6mm
- The one bead with more blue was removed from this strand after shooting, but before adding the group to the website. All beads in this lot have the same pattern.
- Millefiori, the Italian name for these colorful beads, means 1000 flowers
- The beads are decorated with slices of glass canes created either bundling very thin glass tubes together to form the pattern, then fusing them, or encasing round or chevron pattern canes in concentric layers of different colored glass.
- The canes are sliced into murrini, which are laid out on a hot surface and the semi-molten glass cores of the beads are rolled over them, picking up the slices.
- Made in Venice, Italy for the African trade mid-1800s to early 1900s