Blue Glass known as "Russians" or "Cut Blues"

The following pages have collections of drawn and faceted cane blue glass beads with some commonly known as "Russian or Cut Blues".. Bohemian beads made in the Czech Republic ca. 1820 - 1890. The corners of hexagonal tubes, in various shades of blue, were ground off to give these classic beads their distinctive shape.

These popular Czech  beads were drawn tubes made into corner-less hexagonals by grinding
ca. 1820 - 1900 
32 ins / 81 cm strand length
Beads 5x6 to 11x12 mm
ATB 362a   £48

A long strand of early faceted pastel blues
26 ins / 66 cm in length .. with nicely matched beads graduating from 6 x 7 to 10 x 11 mm
ATB 608    £54

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