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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 4461071, member: 36"]Like others have said, it's a game of minutae. Values are all over the place and they fluctuate. For example: Italian wedding cake beads that are 60 or 70 years old sell for more than the same thing from the 80s. Chinese copies are a buck a string, yard sale price. Stone beads are one price for vintage top quality, another for mediocre, and rock bottom for dyed modern junk. Imperial egg yolk amber beads go for silly money, but plastic copies exist and you'd better know the difference if buying or selling. Which is which can take a real expert to suss out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 4461071, member: 36"]Like others have said, it's a game of minutae. Values are all over the place and they fluctuate. For example: Italian wedding cake beads that are 60 or 70 years old sell for more than the same thing from the 80s. Chinese copies are a buck a string, yard sale price. Stone beads are one price for vintage top quality, another for mediocre, and rock bottom for dyed modern junk. Imperial egg yolk amber beads go for silly money, but plastic copies exist and you'd better know the difference if buying or selling. Which is which can take a real expert to suss out.[/QUOTE]
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