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Get a gift of vintage beads with every purchase. Just our way to say THANK YOU!
Get a gift of vintage beads with purchase!
Graduated strands of vintage or antique Bohemian Vaseline beads in yellow.
Sourced in Ethiopia. Manufactured using a prosser mold either in the late 1800's or early 1900's. These beads may be from the revival period of these beads in the mid-20th Century (see below).
4 strands available All have a few darker yellowish green beads mixed in. Photos are examples of available strands. Yours will be very similar.
20 inches of beads per strand. Beads measure in range of 7-14mm hole to hole x12x17mm diameter.
The term, "Vaseline glass" loosely applies to a process in which uranium is added as a chemical agent to glass. These beads are not uranium vaseline glass beads, but their shape is the same, and they are commonly known as "Vaseline beads". During the early 19th Century, glass makers in Central Europe started to use uranium as a method to make yellow and green glass. When added to glass, usually as an oxide, uranium produces colors varying from orange to yellow, green and red. Glass made with this process was named "Vaseline glass" because it resembled vaseline ointment. Vaseline glass beads are usually a small bicone shape with eight facets on either end, and most were produced in Czechoslovakia in the mid to late 19th Century. There was a revival period of vaseline beads in the mid 20th Century and the beads in this listing may be from that period. (reference: Africa Direct).
African Item 1124b
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