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Ancient/Antique Beads
Ancient Adornment has been selling ancient and antique beads on ebay for over nine years with over 6000 positive feed backs. Not just 100% positive feed back, but comments of overwhelming approval and astonishment at the authentic rarities which we sell. You can buy here with discounted prices and the same confidence.
Ancient beads as well as antique beads are among the most interesting of collector’s fields for a number of reasons. The personal connection of ancient and antique beads to their makers as wells their owners is closer than any relics other than religious objects. Few realize that ancient and antique beads made before full industrialization were very costly and in many cases, valued higher than gold. Vikings demanded them as tribute and American Pilgrims used them as money. The broad distribution of beads has in many cases, obscured their origins. In other cases, finding ancient beads far from their known origins, such as North African cowrie beads in Saxon burials, challenges the imagination.
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The ancient Romans developed glass and faience bead technology, but, as with us, valued natural gem stones highly, due to their rarity and the labor involved in working them.
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The Etruscan culture rose in the 7th-6th century BC in what is now Tuscany.
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Ancient Egyptian Amber was mined in Basileia the capital of Atlantis and lay just off the Danish Coast.
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.34” 8.8mm. Nice deep amber color.
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Off white cylindrical stone. About 3/16” dia.
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#90. TOLTEC SHELL WARRIOR’S BADGE. The Toltec were the players of the sacred ball game and great pyramid builders. The pyramids and temples were consecrated with human sacrifices with as many as 20,000 recorded for a single dedication.
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FRENCH BLUE WHITE HEART BEADS, second half of the 19th century made for the Woodland Indian, (Ottawa, Iroquois, Chippewa, Mic Mac and others) market.
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Natural shells, concave form worked to small circles and pierced for stringing.
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Large WHITE GLASS TRADE BEADS made in Europe in imitation of Indian sh America.
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Fine small cylindrical s beads of the first millennium BC. Just under 1/8” diameter. Nicely variegated tan to light green.
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C.2650-2134 BC. Blue Egyptian Lapis Bead.
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Historically, beads were always very valuable and desirable because of the amount of labor needed to make one and the fact that they were easy to transport. At many points in history, they were more valuable than gold.
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Historically, beads were always very valuable and desirable because of the amount of labor needed to make one and the fact that they were easy to transport. At many points in history, they were more valuable than gold.
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Single gray Roman bead, large ,12.9 mm (.50"), in condition as shown.
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Single gray Roman bead, large, 15.8 mm (.63"), in condition as shown.
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Single gray Roman bead, large, 15.5 mm (.61"), in condition as shown.
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Single gray Roman bead, large, 9.4 mm (.37"), in condition as shown.
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They measure about .19" or 5mm.
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This is a ancient Roman stone bead dating C.100 BC-100AD.
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The ancient Romans developed glass and faience bead technology, but, as with us, valued natural gem stones highly, due to their rarity and the labor involved in working them.
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The ancient Romans developed glass and faience bead technology, but, as with us, valued natural gem stones highly, due to their rarity and the labor involved in working them.
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The ancient Romans developed glass and faience bead technology, but, as with us, valued natural gem stones highly, due to their rarity and the labor involved in working them.
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The ancient Romans developed glass and faience bead technology, but, as with us, valued natural gem stones highly, due to their rarity and the labor involved in working them.
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This is a group of three ancient Greek or Southern Italian (the South of Italy was populated by Greek colonies at the time) stone beads dating to about 450 BC.
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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..
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C.2650-2134 BC. Blue Egyptian Lapis Beads.
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C.2650-2134 BC. Blue Egyptian Lapis Beads.
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C.2650-2134 BC. Blue Egyptian Lapis Beads.
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