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Ancient Stone, Faience, Spindlewhorl and Glass Bead Mix - Rita Okrent Collection (C271a)

RARE FIND: only one in our inventory

Mixed strand of treasures pulled from Rita's design room. Many of these can be found on the bead timeline.

https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/anthropology/beads-world/timeline/explore.html

Ancient spindlewhorl (probably Middle Eastern), an ancient (pre-Columbian?) shell bead, 2 ancient flat diamond shaped stone beads from Afghanistan, a striped orange small bicone bead (origin unknown), a teal blue faience bead from Egypt, a blue / black ancient folded melon glass bead from the Middle East and a carved stone pendant sourced in Egypt, marked "ancient" by Rita. Plus two small blue glass antique beads at the ends, one with sparkles, likely from the Middle East.

A wonderful mix. New photos and newly re-listed.

 

Collector Item 271a

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