3000 YEAR OLD ANCIENT PRECOLUMBIAN BEAD MEZCALA

Our friends sometimes ask us “what can I collect that has the potential for investment that these things had when you bought them”.  The answer is simple:  Relics and art of the Mesoamerican (pre-Columbian) civilizations.  All the right factors are there.  They have highly advanced civilizations, including complex written language, astronomy, astrology, science and medicine.  Their art is beautiful and finely made.  Their history, which includes wholesale human sacrifice and serpent worship, is much more fascinating than many other ancient cultures.  Most importantly, research continues and knowledge is increasing daily.  That’s the key!  You can buy items from these cultures for 10%-25% of what a similar Egyptian item would cost and I believe, in time, the prices will be equal.  Also, export of those items has been stopped so the supply is limited.

 This is a bead made from polished spondalus shell. It is .64” (16.3mm) long, and to give you an idea of how much work was involved to produce this with only primitive hand tools, the holed for stringing are bored through the edge on a diagonal and not through the middle!  This is a genuine artifact of the Mezcala civilization, dating from 1200-600 BC.  That civilization flourished in Western Mexico and ritual cannibalism, blood letting, child sacrifice, and jaguar worship were central. Condition is as shown.  24A13 (1)

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