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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1954576, member: 2844"]That's a difficult one, Jal. I suspect they are all Mediterranean, except for the big one, #11. That one looks much like coral used in traditional bead necklaces from Nepal. Although the Himalayan countries used Mediterranean red, some coral is said to be 'red mountain coral'. The only information I have on that is that it is mentioned in several sources as fossil Coralliidae, so related to the precious corals we know now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Could you show photos of #11 from different sides, and of a bead hole?</p><p>And you could test if it is naturally red coral by pressing cotton wool with acetone against the end of the bead for ca 30 seconds. If the cotton wool stains red, the bead is dyed.</p><p><br /></p><p>And also a photo of the other side of #9, the big one with the white band please.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks similar to the white band in some of the beads in the photo below, these are very old Mediterranean red coral beads from an antique necklace from Yemen.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]246341[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see, some of the coral was also attacked by hole boring sea organisms (can't remember the name). Ca 1800 people started to be more particular about the look of coral, and these white bands and holes are hardly seen on 19th and 20th century coral jewellery.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe nice to know, Yemen used to trade coffee for Italian coral. That is how Italy came to have such a coffee culture. The coffee was shipped from the Yemeni port of Mocha, another coffee-associated name.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1954576, member: 2844"]That's a difficult one, Jal. I suspect they are all Mediterranean, except for the big one, #11. That one looks much like coral used in traditional bead necklaces from Nepal. Although the Himalayan countries used Mediterranean red, some coral is said to be 'red mountain coral'. The only information I have on that is that it is mentioned in several sources as fossil Coralliidae, so related to the precious corals we know now. Could you show photos of #11 from different sides, and of a bead hole? And you could test if it is naturally red coral by pressing cotton wool with acetone against the end of the bead for ca 30 seconds. If the cotton wool stains red, the bead is dyed. And also a photo of the other side of #9, the big one with the white band please. It looks similar to the white band in some of the beads in the photo below, these are very old Mediterranean red coral beads from an antique necklace from Yemen. [ATTACH=full]246341[/ATTACH] As you can see, some of the coral was also attacked by hole boring sea organisms (can't remember the name). Ca 1800 people started to be more particular about the look of coral, and these white bands and holes are hardly seen on 19th and 20th century coral jewellery. Maybe nice to know, Yemen used to trade coffee for Italian coral. That is how Italy came to have such a coffee culture. The coffee was shipped from the Yemeni port of Mocha, another coffee-associated name.[/QUOTE]
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