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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kathy Anderson, post: 889347, member: 10843&quot;]Yes; hand-faceted.&nbsp; Doesn&#039;t mean that literally; in Bohemia (pre-Czech government), glass bead laborers sat on a hard stool in front of a polishing wheel that turned perpendicularly toward their bodies.&nbsp; Initially, these were peddle driven.&nbsp; In front of the wheel as it spun toward his body, a man would tilt forward, grab the handles of a device stabilized to the floor, and push a cylinder of bead blanks forward.&nbsp; He&#039;d polish one face, then shake the cylinder, polish the next, and so forth.&nbsp; My guess is these are Bohemian crystal, circa 1890, made for &#039;fine European ladies,&#039; i.e., Victorians with money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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