24-inch strand of rare antique seafoam color Vaseline beads.
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 jars of vaseline were sold in at the time.
I particularly like this rare blue-green semi-opaque seafoam color although it's a little hard to find the right colors to go with it in designs. All beads are clean and in excellent shape
You can tell the ones made before 1860 because the size of 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 make the 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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