Featured Can you tell me anything about these glass beads?

I like them from the very beginning I started collecting jewelry (not long ago), for the same reasons.

 

This! I might admire a modern piece of jewellery but it doesn’t ‘get’ me as it rarely has any history and there is nothing for me to discover.

 

Haha. Yes I “like” it when they get pissy and start to insult the folks giving them an honest assessment. It does stink being the person/people that others turn to for vintage/antique assessment. It’s often new and worthless and you being the messenger often get shot. Here I’m typically the one asking but IRL folks often ask me.

 

I think they are supposed to resemble pottery beads. I thought they were. On closer inspection the color seems to be peeling of a white platicy base near the holes.

 

I have a strong opinion on this: when one asks for information and/or help, they must be ready to accept with thankfulness ANY answer, no matter how disappointing or unpleasant it is. People take their time and effort to look, analyze and respond, furthermore they use their background knowledge to help and they deserve appreciation in any case.
I understand the phycological reasons behind this "shoot the messenger" behaviour but still I cannot tolerate it. If you can't stand any answer, you just don't ask.
Here I'm also at the receiving end and often come up with silly questions, and the experienced antiquers might have already become fed up with me but I have never accepted any opinion with anything else but sincere gratitude. So I fully support the measures taken against such newbies' behaviour like the one in the Cameo thread.

 

well said !

 

amen, says she who's been shot a few times.(LOL)

Silly questions are fine as long as you don't mind silly answers, brought to you from the Ministry of Silly Walks.

 

Agreed. For the record I don’t actually like it. I just like the predictability of silly heads.

 

IMO, one should ask questions and seek discussion even is they are sure about the answer. But at the end the final decision is theirs, and the consequences, too, no matter good or bad.
The biggest mistake in science is the so called "confirmation bias", when people seek and believe only opinions that match their thesis. On the contrary, every contradictory opinion, no matter how crazy it can sound, may lead to discovering something new, or changing the current theory towards a better one. Better in the context of closer to objective reality. This strategy is also very applicable to personal life, I believe. Confirmation bias can have catastrophic consequences, proven.

 

Amen to that.