Rare 24-inch high-graded strand of rare antique, opaque cornflower blue color Vaseline beads. Beads are 10x12mm
They were made in Bohmeia (now the Czech Republic) from 1830 until about 1900 and earned their name because the first ones, made of yellow uranium colored glass, were the same color as the jars vaseline was sold in at the time.
This light cornflower blue color is the only truly opaque color antique Vasaline beads that I know of. It pairs nicely with darker blues and lavender beads
You can tell antique Vasaline beads from the vintage ones, because in the ones made before 1860 the hole is much bigger on one side of the bead than the other. This is because the beads were individually shaped and perforated with a plier-like device that created the larger hole on one side. Subsequent technological advances in molded beads could make beads with smaller holes on both sides.
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