Venetian Fancy Beads
Beautiful lamp-wound and trail-decorated glass beads, produced, enhanced and developed from the late 1800's onwards, using a trail-decoration process, made possible with the change from oil to gas lamps by the leading bead-masters of the 1860's. Many have the addition of Aventurine ( tiny flakes of copper suspended in a transparent glass medium ) which the Venetians invented in the late 1600's and maintained a monopoly on until the mid-1880's.

Strand                                     Venetian Fancies        From the early 1800s onwards

vds 201-01 **
14 x 16 b
£26   Sold

vds 201-02 **
11 x 12 cone c
£20 Sold

vds 201-03 **
11 x 11 sp
£18

vds 201-04
15 x 11 b
£14

vds 201-05
13 x 10 b
£16

vds 201-06
10 x 11 b
£14

vds 201-12
8 x 10 b
£18 Sold

vds 201-13 **
18 x 10
£22

vds 201-14
20 x 11
£16

vds 201-15
15 x 9
£14

vds 201-16
19 x 8
£18 Sold

vds 201-18
17 x 8
£6

vds 201-19
10 x 11
£22

vds 201-20
11 x 13
£14

vds 201-22
10 x 12
£22

vds 201-23
11 x 11
£14

vds 201-25
11 x 11
£10

vds 201-26
10 x 10
£12

vds 201-28
   10 x 12 Click
       £6   Picture

vds 201-32
11 x 10
£22

vds 201-33 **
10 x 10 c
£10

vds 201-36
10 x 13
£18

vds 201-37
10 x 13
£16

vds 201-38
11 x 12
£20 Sold

vds 202 **
11 x 12 b
£22

vds 203 **
13 x 13 e
£20

vds 204 **
12 x 11 b
£20

vds 206 **
11 x 11 s
£8

vds 208 **
11 x 10 b
£22

vds 209 **
14 x 12 b
£20

vds 210 **
17 x 11 b
£18

vds 211 **
17 x 8 e
£16

vds 212 **
14 x 9 e
£12

vds 213
17 x 14 b
£12

vds 214
13 x 14 b
£12

vds 215
10 x 14 b
£10

vds 216
11 x 14 b
£8

vds 218
13 x 13 b
£12

vds 219
12 x 13 b
£12

vds 221
13 x 14 b
£12

vds 222
12 x 13 b
£12

vds 224
11 x 13 b
£12

vds 225
12 x 12 b
£12

vds 226
12 x 12 b
£12

vds 232
12 x 12 b
£8

vds 233
10 x 13 b
£12

vds 234
10 x 13 b c
£6

vds 235-01
13x13 wh. heart
£18

vds 235-02
16 x 9 oval
£12

vds 236
12 x 12 b
£4

vds 242
9 x 12 b
£12

vds 244
10 x 12 b
£12

vds 245
10 x 12 b
£10

vds 246
11 x 12 b
£12

vds 247
10 x 11 b
£14

vds 248
10 x 11 b
£10

vds 250
10x 11 b
£14

vds 252
8 x 10 b
Early £8

vds 253 V
14 x 10 x 5 ta
£5

vds 260-05
14 x 9 e c T
£5

vds 260-06
12 x 9 e T
£8

vds 260-09
10 x 8 e T
£6

vds 261 **
11 x 13 b
 £14

vds 262 **
11 x 12 b
 £16   Sold

vds 264 **
11 x 12 b
 £16   Sold

vds 266 **
13 x 10 b c
 £8

vds 268 **
14 x 15 b
 £18

vds 269 **
10 x 12 b
 £12

vds 270 **
11 x 7 b
 £8

vds 271 **
17 x 8 e c
 £12

vds 273 **
12x15x8 tablet
 £18 Sold

vds 274 **
10 x 12 b
 £12

vds 278
12 x 13 b
 £12   Sold

vds 281
13 x 14 b T
 £12

vds 282
12 x 15 b
 £12

  vds 283 Ghost
   15x15   bead
£26 Sold

vds 284
12 x 13 b T
 £12

vds 287
11 x 12 b
 £10

vds 291
9 x 9 b
 £12   Sold

vds 292
17 x 10 e
 £8

vds 293
17 x 10 e e
 £14   Sold

vds 294
12 x 8 b
 £8 Sold

vds 296
10 x 11 sph
 £8

vds 297 **-T
20 x 13 e
 £14

All these beads are in pristine condition, with repeated patterns on their reverse sides. Where a  c is shown, this indicates a minute imperfection which does little to detract from the overall appearance of the bead concerned.
-T =Translucent Green Glass    -T =Translucent Red Glass

Key: Measurements in mm ( width along hole x diameter )  ** = with aventurine
Shape: b = barrel     bic = bicone    cyl = cylinder  c = small chip e = early production
           e = ellipsoid    sp = spherical   ta = tabular   V = variable pattern style

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