Ancient Afghan Calcified Gold Foil Glass Beads Japanese Glass Beads light pink with blue and

light pink with blue and white polka dot glass bead from the late 1700s or early 1800s

Beads size averages 14-17mm long by 5-4mm thick (there may be a few un-squashed regular oval watermelon beads in each strand)

Solid silver backing

These measure 13-15mm diameter x 3-7mm tall with 4-6mm holes

slightly worn from decades of use

Ancient Afghan Calcified Gold Foil Glass Beads Japanese Glass Beads light pink with blue and20" strand of Ancient (1000+) Gold Foil Glass Tube beads excavated from Afghanistan. Tubes vary in length; typically there are short ones (8mm x 4mm) and long ones (38mm x 4 5mm) with 1mm holes. These strands have high calcified glass in them, meaning that there is less of the "gold" foil tones. Very delicate.