19th C. Venetian / African Glass & Brass Bead Necklaces

Two Venetian / African glass trade bead necklaces 18th and 19th century

Europe, Italy, Venice, found in western Africa, ca. 18th to early 19th century CE. A wonderful set of 3 wearable necklaces, each strung with dozens of hand-formed glass trade beads in a myriad of vibr

Europe, Italy, Venice, found in western Africa, ca. 18th to 19th century CE. A fine selection of wearable necklaces made with dozens of petite glass trade beads. Two of the necklaces have solely red b

Europe, Italy, Venice, found in western Africa, ca. 18th to early 19th century CE. An enticing set of 4 Venetian glass trade bead strands that can be restrung into attractive and wearable necklaces. T

Western Europe, Italy, Venice, ca. 19th century CE; West Africa, ca. 19th to mid-20th century. An enormous strand of Venetian glass trade beads, each comprised of vibrant colors and elaborate decorati

**First Time At Auction** North & West Africa, 19th century CE. A collection of about 110 glass beads strung together on a modern cord as a necklace. Although their precise age remains uncertain, this

Western Europe, Italy, Venice, ca. 19th century CE. A dazzling ensemble of dozens of glass trade beads of the Chevron variety in hues of cobalt, scarlet, and white, all strung on a modern strand to be

West Africa, Ghana or Mali, possibly originating in Western Europe, Netherlands, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A long strand of 28 large glass beads each of a deep teal green hue. Each bead is fo

**First Time At Auction** Europe, Venice (modern day Italy), found in western Africa, ca. 18th century CE. A beautiful necklace comprised of fifty-one millefiori glass beads. Most have yellow as their

A group of 2 trade bead glass necklaces and 1 large Venetian glass bead. ++ Strung necklace on woven cording with likely 19th century black and white trade beads including Louis and Clark beads. 12 1/

Central Europe, Italy, Venice, ca. 17th to 19th century CE. A collection of chevron glass trade beads, strung in ascending sizes on a modern wire as a wearable necklace with modern nickel terminal bea

Europe, Italy, Venice, found in western Africa, ca. 18th to early 19th century CE. A lovely pair of Venetian glass and stone trade bead strands, each strung on modern stringing that can be made into m

**Originally Listed At $500** Europe, Italy, Venice, found in western Africa, ca. 18th to early 19th century CE. An attractive pairing of Venetian glass trade bead strands that can be restrung into ey

**Originally Listed At $250** Western Europe, Italy, Venice, ca. early 19th to mid-20th century CE; found in West Africa. A fine collection of Venetian glass trade bead strands that can be restrung in

For your consideration is this pair of Venetian African trade beads, circa 19th century. The first is a necklace of Millefiori beads showing two tone coloration with round construction and blue and wh

**Originally Listed At $150** Europe, Italy, Venice, found in western Africa, ca. 18th to early 19th century CE. A matched group of fifty-one gorgeous mint green glass beads with bands of yellow, red,

Venetian chevron trading bead necklace. 15 six-layered red, white and blue chevron glass trading beads in graduating sizes. Late 19th / early 20th C. (Approx. 17" long, beads ranging in size from 1" t

19th Century Naga Head Hunter Warriors Brass Pendent Decorated Beaded Necklace. 8 different tarnished brass pendents; green, yellow, dark blue, orange, light blue, red glass trade beads; original fibe

**Originally Listed At $250** Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, ca. 20th century CE. A brass cross in the traditional and distinctive Coptic Ethiopian style, with three arms in the form of clubs and an openwo

Venetian glass bead topiaries, 19th century, in the form of bouquets of polychrome beaded wire flowers resting in carved urns, 23.5"h x 7'w x 5"d.

Classical World, Eastern Mediterranean, Phoenician, ca. mid-1st century BCE; Europe, ca. 19th century CE. A fabulous gathering of 17 Phoenician and 18 nineteenth-century European glass beads, all stru

North America, Canada, ca. early 19th century CE. A beautiful, rare artifact, a hand-worked silver Celtic-style openwork cross made by the silversmith Charles Arnaldi (1779 to 1817 CE) of the Montreal

**First Time At Auction** Africa, ca. 19th century. A stunning necklace of 52 gorgeous copal beads each skillfully hand-carved in the "cornerless cube" shape and gradually increasing in size from one

Holy Land, Israel, Hebron, ca. 19th century CE. A gorgeous ensemble of 49 glass beads known as Hebron or Kano beads of the rare blue variety, all strung to gently graduate toward the center on a jute