COLONIAL AMERICAN TRADE BEADS
C1968
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$38.00
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White glass, produced in China in the 18th and early 19th century. 20 beads varying in color and shape, about ¼”-3/8” diameter and stringing to over 6”. “Lamp work” produced by deposition, a thread of molten glass over a turning mandrel. In use in Colonial America by the mid 18th century, beads of this exact type were carried by Lewis and Clarke on their 1804 expedition.
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