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LARGE WHITE GLASS TRADE BEADS
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Price: $25.00
Sale Price: $17.50
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Item Number: bd6
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Large WHITE GLASS TRADE BEADS made in Europe in imitation of Indian shell beads and used in Colonial America. See Collectors Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, page 33 #4 where they are dated to 1750 and called colorless, but we would call them off white. Over 3/8” and ten string to about 2 1/2 inches.
Ten beads.
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Price: $25.00
Sale Price: $17.50
You Save: $7.50 (30 %)
For nearly 300 years, beads served as a mean of exchange in America. Shell beads originated with Indians but were replaced by European glass beads
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Price: $25.00
Sale Price: $17.50
You Save: $7.50 (30 %)
EUROPEAN WHITE GLASS BEADS C.1750, shipped to America for trade with the Indians.
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Price: $20.00
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HUDSON BAY TRADE BEADS made in Europe in the 18th and early 19th century traded to Indians, first by the Hudson Bay Company in the East and Canada for furs.
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These beads wash ashore along the Atlantic coast from those wrecks.
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