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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KSW, post: 4464512, member: 8708&quot;]I bought a tin box from a car boot sale. In it was a collection of stationary items from a British Army Officer in India, silver propelling pencils with hallmarks from 1828 to 1899, British Stationary office pencils some dated 1942 and some fountain pens up to c1930 so quite a wide date range. These beads were in the bottom. it rained at the car boot and some ink came off the dip pens and onto the beads so I had to wash some. </p><p>The beads have me completely bemused.&nbsp; I thought maybe an odd colour amber as they feel/weigh/look&nbsp; like that and faintly fluoresce. Then panicked and thought maybe cinnabar but cinnabar doesn’t fluoresce according to my research. </p><p>Any ideas welcome please <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]385647[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]385648[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]385649[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]385650[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]385651[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]385652[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]385653[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]385654[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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