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1971.15.257

Specimen card of a range of glass beads.

1971.15.257

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Collection type
Object
Description
Specimen card of a range of glass beads.
Cultural groups
Czech
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1948
Date collected
By 1948
Acquisition information
Donated: 26/10/1971
Materials and processes
Material Glass, Material Bead, Material Cardboard Paper Plant, Material Paste Glass, Process Written, Process Strung
Dimensions
Width 170 mm, Length 270 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1971.15.257
Research and responses

Many beads and ornaments produced in France, Germany and the Czech Republic, thought to be opaque glass or porcelein are actually the products of a milk-paste which is moulded under high pressure and then fired, giving the appearance of glass or porcelein, but actually being a synthetic material. Ref: Picard, R and J. 1995. 'Prosser Beads: The French Connection' in Ornament 19 (2): 68 - 71. In RDF. [MO'B 26/4/2001]

Associated publications
For a colour photograph of this object, see Figure SW9 in 'The Studies of A. J. Arkell on the Movement of Beads in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in the 1930s', by Sara Withers, in International Bead & Beadwork Conference, 22-25 November 2007, Istanbul, edited by Jamey D. Allen and Valerie Hector, (no place [Istanbul]: Kadir Has University, no date [2007]), unpaginated. See also Withers's notes on this image on the second page of her text. Copy of volume in Balfour Library; photocopy of Withers's paper in RDF: Researchers: Withers. [JC 28 8 2008]

Search terms: Bead, Ornament, Trade, Currency, Bead Card

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