Red Vaseline Beads, Mixed Strand silver and enamel deep color with matrix

deep color with matrix

Handmade in Ethiopia with approximate size 3-3

Hallmark on this pair reads  Sterling

graduated and multi-color

some more round

Red Vaseline Beads, Mixed Strand silver and enamel deep color with matrixRed vaseline beads, early 1900's transparent greasy red ruby glass, variety of shapes, colors and sizes. 28 inch strand. Czech Bohemian glass traded in West Africa. Beads are a real mix, some carnelian glass, some brownish red, some ruby red. Sizes range on this graduated strand from 9mm diameter to 19mm. Hole sizes range from 1mm 3mm. 62 beads in the strand, with one carnelian stone bead, one brown brick with green stripe, one transparent melon just