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.

Seconds Small Collections       Venetian Fancies        From the early 1800s onwards

vds 203-01 **
15 x 15 b ah
£18

vds 203-02 **
14 x 15 b
£18

vds 203-03 **
15 x 14 b
£18

vds 203-04 **
14 x 15 b
£18

vds 203-05 **
15 x 15 b
£18

vds 203-06 **
14 x 14 b
£18

vds 203-07 **
14 x 14 b
£18

vds 203-08 **
13 x 14 b
£18

vds 203-09 **
11 x 14 b
£16

vds 203-10 **
13 x 13 b
£18

vds 203-11 **
11 x 12 b
£16

vds 203-12 **
11 x 11 b
£20

vds 203-13 **
10 x 11 b
£16

vds 203-14
14 x 15 b
£12

vds 203-15
12 x 13 b T
£16

vds 203-16
12 x 14 b
£14

vds 203-17
11 x 14 b T
£14

vds 203-18
13 x 13 b T
£14

vds 203-19
12 x 13 b
£16 Sold

vds 203-20
13 x 12 b
£12

vds 203-21
14 x 13 e
£18

vds 203-22
14 x 9 cyl
£12

vds 203-23
12 x 13 b
£12

vds 203-24
12 x 13 b
£14

vds 203-25
9 x 13 b T
£14

vds 203-26
10 x 11 b
£14  Sold

vds 203-27
11 x 13 b T
£14  Sold

vds 203-28
8 x 10 b T
£ 14

vds 203-29
10 x 12 b
£14

vds 203-30
9 x 11 b T
£14

vds 203-31
14 x 14 b
Ghost Bead £28

vds 203-32
21 x 11 e
£16  Sold

vds 203-33
14 x 9 e
£12

vds 203-34
20 x 11 e
£16  Sold

vds 203-35
20 x 8 cyl
£12

vds 203-36
19 x 10 e
£12

vds 203-37
15 x 10 e
£10

vds 203-38
15 x 11 b
£12

vds 203-39
13 x 13 sph
£12

vds 203-40
11 x 13 b
£12

vds 203-41
12 x 12 sph
£12  Sold

vds 203-42
12 x 13 b
£10

vds 203-43
10 x 11 b
£ 6

vds 203-44
11 x 12 b
£14

vds 203-45
9 x 12 b
£12  Sold

vds 203-46
11 x 12 b
£16  Sold

vds 203-47
10 x 13 b
£14  Sold

vds 203-48
12 x 13 b
£12

vds 203-49
12 x 13 b
£14

vds 203-50
12 x 12 b
£14

vds 203-51
11 x 12 b
£14

vds 203-52
8 x 12 b
£10  Sold

vds 203-53
11 x 12 b
£14

vds 203-54
7 x 13 b
£12

vds 203-55
17 x 10 e-T
£12

vds 203-56
18 x 10 e-T
£12

vds 203-57
18 x 10 e-T
£12

vds 203-58
15 x 10 e-T
£10

vds 203-59
15 x 10 e-T
£10

vds 203-60
15 x 10 e
£16

vds 203-61
24 x 8 e
£18 Sold

vds 203-62
24 x 8 e c
£16

vds 202-08
9 x 13 b
£10

vds 202-09
9 x 11 b
£10

vds 202-15
16 x 8 cube
£16

vds 202-16 **
15 x 16 b
£12

vds 202-17 **
14 mm sph
(1935 ) £14

vds 201-04
15 x 11 b
£14

vds 201-13 **
18 x 10
£22

vds 201-14
20 x 11
£16  Sold

vds 201-15
15 x 9
£14 

vds 201-18
17 x 8
£6

vds 201-32
11 x 10
£22  Sold

vds 201-36
10 x 13
£18  Sold

vds 203 **
13 x 13 e
£20

vds 204 **
12 x 11 b
£16

vds 208 **
11 x 10 b
£22

vds 209 **
14 x 12 b
£14

vds 210
17 x 11 b
£10  Sold

vds 211 **
17 x 8 e
£16

vds 212 **
14 x 9 e
£12

vds 215
10 x 14 b
£10  Sold

vds 233
10 x 13 b
£12

vds 234
10 x 13 b c
£6 Sold

vds 248
10 x 11 b
£8 Sold

vds 253 V
13 x 9 x 5 ta
£5

vds 253-01
16 x 10 x 5 taT
£6 Sold

vds 253-02
14 x 9 x 5 ta T
£6 Sold

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 260-12 **
14 x 8 e
£6

vds 271 **
17 x 8 e c
 £6

vds 282
12 x 15 b
 £12

vds 292
17 x 10 e
 £8

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 Blue Glass    -T = Translucent Green Glass     -T = Translucent Red Glass
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vds 203-01 ** ah =  An excellent bead which has 3 small air bubble holes from its original production.
The aventurine bands on beads marked with ** do continue around the bead concerned, but in their pictures,
the sparkling aventurine shows up brightly only on their front faces, due to the limitations of scanning.

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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