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what kind of bead is this? - Unitof1 - 24th July 2010
what kind of bead is this?
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what kind of bead is this? - troll - 24th July 2010
Its a green glass venerable. Without a scale and with a walruses genitalia nudging into frame on the left.
what kind of bead is this? - Unitof1 - 24th July 2010
Sorry I thought that I had put a standard walruse thingy init.
i can spot the green which does have a later medieval attraction but why the venerable?
what kind of bead is this? - mpoole - 24th July 2010
Not sure, is it an oosik or the whole walrus? That's important, because if it's a walrus, that's one very large bead!
If you can show a better photo with a useful scale, I can at least see if it's wound or drawn glass.
what kind of bead is this? - Unitof1 - 25th July 2010
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what kind of bead is this? - troll - 25th July 2010
...the venerable Bede ?!........ never mind........
what kind of bead is this? - deadlylampshade - 25th July 2010
Nice one Troll...beat me to it!!}
what kind of bead is this? - mpoole - 25th July 2010
Green glass isn't uncommon, it looks like a drawn-glass bead rather than wound, and may be a pressed bead. Drawn beads are made from a tube of glass which is made by gathering a blob of molten glass at the end of a hollow tube, blowing an air bubble into the middle and then pulling the glass into a tube. Most small beads are made this way. Its tapered shape could be from a press, many lengths of glass rod were pressed and then cut into lengths of beads, it could be half of a biconical bead too.
I don't have my bead books at home but I'll look and see if I can find an equivalent for it on Monday.
-Su
what kind of bead is this? - mpoole - 25th July 2010
troll Wrote:...the venerable Bede ?!........ never mind........
We have a display of paternoster beads under the heading 'Venerable Beads'. One out of ten people get it.
what kind of bead is this? - Unitof1 - 4th August 2010
pet topic,
but before the venerable bead-pray, are there any references as to how a bead was refered to/called? it seems to me that the term bead is not very old (like palaeolithic) and there does not seem to be older words for thing with a hole through it that could be threaded through a string (possibly then worn/carried about/used for counting? for some affect/effect) before venerable bede- have i missed something obvious