This ultra-long 44-inch strand of Russian Blues from West Africa consists of 22 inches of 5x6mm short mostly round cylindrical medium blue mostly multi-layer beads, and 22 inches of larger, darker mostly hexagonal cylinder beads, also mostly multi-layer although the inter liter layers don't show through the opaque outer layer of glass.
The smaller beads have 2mm holes, the larger ones have holes at least 3mm
Made in Bohemia (now Czech Republic) between the 1820s and 1890s for worldwide trade mid- to late 1800s. Production peaked in the 1840s
Russian Blue beads got their name because the were traded by Russian fur traders in Alaska, and along the north American west coast in mid-1800s
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