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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 4514761, member: 10944&quot;][ATTACH=full]397000[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]397001[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]397002[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]397003[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]397004[/ATTACH] This came from an online estate auction a cpl years ago. Guy was a jewelry maker and I believe professor. His thing was mixing old and ancient with new. I bought a few handfuls of things including some nice Lampwork beads I posted here quite a while back. Other than those glass beads everything has been put away since. I was unsure of most of it and haven’t gotten around to the research. Some of his stuff was called pretty Columbian and certainly some of his collection/inventory was or was trying to be at least. Some appears to be Neolithic Chinese or similar. Some possibly Roman. Hard for me to say especially when I knew less a couple years ago and have a poor memory. I wish I could recall his name. Anyways the box this was in was stored separately from the rest. Happened upon it today and figured I’d get some opinions. Looks more like turquoise to me than anything else but I’ve personally not seen turquoise beads in these longer tubes. Im certainly not convinced that’s what it is. Could also be a type of marble I guess? Hoping someone can help there. The pendant is an old smaller size crotal bell. Hard for me to say when or where on the bell. They’ve been used for thousands of years as far as I know without too many drastic changes. Shape may help someone ID it as it’s not just a sphere. Anyways here it is on a semi modern chain.</p><p><br /></p><p>edit: the beads do look old to me but all stone is old so that could be it. Someone will know more by looking at the holes I assume.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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