We offer the following beads for those people who are skilled in repair or who do not require first quality beads for their creations. These
collections contain beads with small chips, misshapes or excess wear, which are not suitable to be offered as first quality single beads, but are beautiful nevertheless.
A mixture of Venetian drawn glass beads from the early 1800s .. with red or white cores. Strand length 9 ins / 23 cm Centre bead 13 x 16 mm D 227 £20
Venetian " Gooseberries "- Drawn beads of
this type were included amongst the cargoes of trading beads brought into the New World ( The Americas ) from the 1500's to the 1700's by Spanish explorers. - A 7 ins /
18 cm length of these historical beads, graduating from 5 x 8 to 10 x 10 mm. All with some wear on the stripes. ATB 645 h £28
Click HERE for 1st quality Small Collections
and HERE for Single 'Gooseberry' Beads
A mixture of ancient and antique German and Yoruba glass cylinders with minor imperfections 6 ins / 15 cm strand length Central bead 19 x 7 mm D 263 £14
