Closer bead puctures.

[FunWithTreasure]

So I got some closer pics of the bead I found while artifact hunting. I looked at it under magnification the paint is weird looking up close. I think it may be a trade bead but having never found one I want to be sure before I label it. I am excited about it. What do you think. It is glass

 

[Red Earth]

Nice

 

[GatorBoy]

The context means alot with beads unless it's a documented type... I would use your computer to research archaeological collections from your area.
Your states museum of Natural History.. May have a database.
Otherwise a general search For trade beads With your location in the search query might turn up something.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Check out these sites and you may find some info on yours. I didn't go through them all though, but there are a lots of different Beads shown.

Gallery of Trade Beads African Slave Beads African Currency

Glass Trade Beads from the English Colonial Period in the Southeast, ca. A.D. 1607 - 1783 | Jon Marcoux - Academia.edu

This one is a huge chart that you can zoom in on. Lots of Beads on this.

http://www.ezakwantu.com/Trade Beads Chart - The History of Beads.jpg

 

[monsterrack]

It looks like a trade bead , but I have never seen that typeHere are a few from my area

 

[GatorBoy]

I've never found multicolored ones over here.
Besides the tiny blue one that I found back in the scrub land away from any known site... the other three here were all found at one site in very good context close to eachother.

 

[monsterrack]

I've never found multicolored ones over here.
Besides the tiny blue one that I found back in the scrub land away from any known site... the other three here were all found at one site in very good context close to eachother.

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The largest of the 2 blue ones is what I call a Russian blue, I have found some of them here also

 

[GatorBoy]

That's them.. although in my reading they actually have nothing to do with Russia.."strange"
Thanks.

 

[surf]

So I got some closer pics of the bead I found while artifact hunting. I looked at it under magnification the paint is weird looking up close. I think it may be a trade bead but having never found one I want to be sure before I label it. I am excited about it. What do you think. It is glass

Hey FWT,

Beautiful bead, sir. I don't know what part of this you believe to be paint, but I don't believe any paint was involved. Wonderful color combination for America.

I can't believe you haven't cleaned the mud off. Use a toothpick and punch out that schmutz. I wanna see this after some soapy fun with the toothbrush.

What I can tell you, is that I believe it started it's journey in Venice, Italy. It's a very fancy restrained style of millefiori glass bead. It was made using cut pieces of red and white glass canes, lampworked into the cobalt matrix.

Here's some examples of canes:

I'm guessing this is a 19th Century bead, because of the subtle use of the canes. Perhaps introduced into your area by Steven A. Frost & Son.

Steven Frost, Bead Merchant ​

 

[releventchair]

That's them.. although in my reading they actually have nothing to do with Russia.."strange"
Thanks.

Mountain Man Plains Indian Fur Trade Beads Pictures History Facts

One mention of source being from Bohemia(Chechen?)a place more claims seem to agree with,unlike our more familiar Venetian stuff.
Mention too of Russian acquisition from American and English traders.Where ever they acquired them they started trading them to natives on N.W. coast at least by late 1700s.

 

[surf]

Trade Beads: Russian Faceted

 

[GatorBoy]

Good read

 

[catherine1]

Nice bead find! I would clean any remaining dirt off like Surf said. I usually run some slow running water over most of my artifacts for a few minutes to soften it up before I try to remove the dirt. And then I use a soft toothbrush. Sometimes you have to repeat the process. Softening the dirt lessons the damage to the artifact.

 

[FunWithTreasure]

Thanks for the info. The sticks look just like it that you posted. So is it a trade bead?

 

[GatorBoy]

It looks for sure to be a bead from the right period.

 

[FunWithTreasure]

Sweet pretty excited.

 

[monsterrack]

Nice bead find! I would clean any remaining dirt off like Surf said. I usually run some slow running water over most of my artifacts for a few minutes to soften it up before I try to remove the dirt. And then I use a soft toothbrush. Sometimes you have to repeat the process. Softening the dirt lessons the damage to the artifact.

Most the time when I remove dirt from the center of a bead ,I will let it soak in water for 24hrs to make sure the dirt is soft. I broke a few before I started this by trying to get the dirt out before it became soft.

 

[FunWithTreasure]

Thanks for the tip. I would cry if I broke it. You dint find much stuff like this around Here.

 

[GatorBoy]

Here's another tip... if you do any metal detecting hit that area.

 

[FunWithTreasure]

I hit it a lot. Find some stuff mostly George coins from the early 1700s