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<p>[QUOTE="antidiem, post: 221329, member: 30"]Great Lucille, please do let us know! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":cat:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The only single glass "trade bead" that I think I've ever had - I gave it to my brother for Christmas long ago - so I cannot photograph it until next time I see him. I bought it in the French Quarter for a dollar many decades ago. It has a semi-milleflore design with a rooster bird fashioned on the side, similarly colored to the one AJ has shown first but with more yellow. It is not quite as bulky around as these which are less skillfully created. My brother researched it and found it was an old African bead. It was much more "ornate" than these, but wasn't "perfect" due to age and wear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="antidiem, post: 221329, member: 30"]Great Lucille, please do let us know! :cat: The only single glass "trade bead" that I think I've ever had - I gave it to my brother for Christmas long ago - so I cannot photograph it until next time I see him. I bought it in the French Quarter for a dollar many decades ago. It has a semi-milleflore design with a rooster bird fashioned on the side, similarly colored to the one AJ has shown first but with more yellow. It is not quite as bulky around as these which are less skillfully created. My brother researched it and found it was an old African bead. It was much more "ornate" than these, but wasn't "perfect" due to age and wear.[/QUOTE]
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