Featured Japanese mixed metal ojime beads

Hello

I bought these on ebay. I was a little nervous about buying ‘vintage metal warrior necklace’ with blurry photos for £90, but now i have them in hand i think i got a bargain.

I’ve never bought ojime beads before so i look forward to all comments. A few of them are really nice, and one is signed. I have numbered them to make things easy.

Large deity bead measures 4cm.
Total weight 111 grams.

 

that's a nice looking assortment !!!!

 

I like them all......
yup the big guy is special......and the Tsuba's are cute !!!

 

@Ratsy Brown - Very cool beads!!

I knew we had a thread recently about this type of bead. It was started by @Ownedbybear.

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/ojime-beads-i-believe.36434/

@Kyoto1975 seemed to be very knowledgeable but hasn't been here since August but hopefully, he'll get the tag notice.

 

@Ratsy Brown - I just thought of something else. Maybe send Kyoto1975 a PM.

I know the only way I get alerts is when I sign into the forum which is fine because I come here usually at least a couple of times a day. However, I get an email telling me I have a new conversation or a reply to an ongoing conversation.

Since he has not been here since August you might have better luck getting his attention with a PM.

 

OMG ! Another thing I didnt know I needed ! Those are fabulous.

 

Thank you, i’ll try and make contact. Mine were also sold as a necklace. It was white metal(possibly silver, i didn’t check) stranded wire necklace. It was modern and broken, not original so i threw it away.

 

I reckon you did marvellous, divide that £90 by 22 and its peanuts

Especially seeing how some can fetch into the hundreds each

 

Are the beads attracted to a magnet?

 

That's a lovely struck Mark, wouldn't expect to see that on something less

 

@Ownedbybear

Can hopefully have a look for you

 

Holy cow. Back in a mo', but those look right.

 

I call kosher on these. That devil one is astonishing, and I suspect the highest value. I'll lay odds you've a four figure sum in that lot.

 

yup, looks like u did good here Ratsy...!!

 

For those interested; these beads sold to a curator of an online Japanese gallery. He has added some details here:

https://www.thejapanesegallery.com/ojime-collection

Lots of other beautiful pieces on there.

 

Oh how wonderful they look ! What a treat to see such beautiful things.

 

fun when you find something reasonably historic and important !!
Yay, mr. brown !!!!!

that gallery collection is a great resource ...& eye candy !!!

 

@Ratsy Brown - Congratulations on what I have a feeling was a financially rewarding transaction!!

 

Such an interesting thread. Thank you for the follow-up, and congratulations on your purchase and sale, Ratsy! Well done!