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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 14847, member: 56&quot;]Those Czech buttons are beautiful.&nbsp; I&#039;m surprised they are so recent.&nbsp; I like the antique ones as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found these tiny red beads (about 1/8” across) at the bottom of my grandmother’s sewing basket.&nbsp; There are ninety of them.&nbsp; The sliding top box came out of my grandparents’ house, but I’m the one who put the beads in the box.&nbsp; I’ve seen similar beads online as Russian trade beads.&nbsp; These could easily be mid-19th C, but they could just as easily be early 20th.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/hoozzatt/Temp/RedGlassBeadsRedRussianCranberry-b_zpsee42882e.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/hoozzatt/Temp/BuckleysSlideTopBoxRedGlassBeads-a_zps57f6668c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These two beaded patches are 1 ¾” long.&nbsp; They came out of an aunt’s apartment.&nbsp; My guess is they maybe came from a pair of shoes?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/hoozzatt/Temp/FloralGlassCutSteelBeadedBeadsShoePatchesAlyceCouttsSameBoxAsLampTirmBeadsLaceHanky17723648-a_zpsbb0f563f.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/hoozzatt/Temp/FloralGlassCutSteelBeadedBeadsShoePatchesAlyceCouttsSameBoxAsLampTirmBeadsLaceHanky17723648-c_zpsa944fc7f.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These beads also came out of my aunt’s apartment.&nbsp; Probably trim salvaged from a lampshade.&nbsp; The honey-colored tubes (which are ribbed, though you can’t see it) are consistently 3cm (a bit less than 1 ¼”) long.&nbsp; The full strand is approximately 46” long.&nbsp; They are glass, and I was told probably Austrian.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/hoozzatt/Temp/VenetianBeadLampTrim-d_zps67a5aa65.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/hoozzatt/Temp/VenetianBeadLampTrim-c_zps6eb1b720.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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