"Vaselines" - Small Collections

More beautiful matched examples of old and new "Vaseline" beads .. their popular name probably deriving from the colour of the petroleum jelly or its bottle. Produced from the mid-1800s onwards often with Uranium used as the colorant .. the older examples shown below fluoresce under ultraviolet light .. displaying a lovely smooth patina of over 100 years of wear.

Early fluorescing bicones - coloured matched glass

Item Number

Strand Length

Bead Sizes

Price

(1) Fac 284-03

12 ins / 31 cm

9 x 12 to 12 x 14 mm

£40  Sold

(2) Fac 284-04

9 ins / 23 cm

10 x 13 to 13 x 15 mm

£26   Sold

(3) Fac 284-05

8 ins / 20 cm

7 x 10 to 9 x 12 mm

£24

(4) Fac 284-06

3 ins / 8 cm

8 x 11 to 9 x 11 mm

£8   Sold

6 ins / 15 cm length of 1800s fluorescing 13 x 13 mm cubes
Fac 269  £16   Sold

6 ins / 15 cm length of modern
13 x 15 mm fluted bicone triangulars
Fac 275  £8   Sold

2 ins / 5 cm length of 1800s fluorescing rounded faceted 13 x 13 mm cubes
Fac 271  £8   Sold

6 ins / 15 cm length of modern
13 x 13 mm faceted cubes
Fac 244    £16   Sold

6 ins / 15 cm length of 1900s non-fluorescing 13x13mm cubes
Fac 270    £16

5 ins / 13 cm length of
colour matched fluorescing
12 x 14 mm bicones
Fac 286    £14   Sold

3.5 ins / 9 cm length of 1800s non-fluorescing faceted bicones 9 x 12 to 14 x 17 mm
Fac 291-04   £10   Sold

3 ins / 8 cm length of
modern non-fluorescent
7 x 16 mm faceted  bicones
Fac 287  £10

3.5 ins / 9 cm length of 1800s fluorescing faceted bicones
9 x 13 to 13 x 16 mm
Fac 291-05   £10   Sold

5 ins / 13 cm length of modern
10 x 10 mm offset cubes
Fac 276    £12   Sold

Click HERE to see
the fluorescing effect

Early fluorescing bicones - nicely rounded with age

Item Number

Strand
Length

Bead
Sizes

Price

(1) Fac 291-01

10 ins / 16 cm

9 x 13 mm

£30 Sold

(2) Fac 291-02

7 ins / 18 cm

9 x 13 mm

£20 Sold

(3) Fac 291-03

3.5 ins / 9 cm

9 x 12 to 11 x 14 mm

£10 Sold

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