"Mizrah" – Beads - Europe, 19th century

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

37 cm x 34 cm. Circa 120,000 glass beads. German Desription: Perlenstickerei. Europa. Antik, 19. Jahrhundert. Blauhäher? 37 cm x 34 cm. Feine Handarbeit aus circa 120.000 Glasperlen.

Eastern Europe, 19th/20th Century. A painted icon of the Theotokos as the Virgin of Hodegetria, with foil oklad and ornate foil liner, embellished with faux pearl beads and flowers, in a shadowbox fra

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

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

2 Antique Dutch Opaque and Cobalt Glass Trade Bead Necklaces With flat silver disc spacers. Such beads were made in Europe and traded to the Dogon people of Mali in the 18th and 19th centuries. Size:

**Originally Listed At $400** Rome, Imperial period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE; Northern Europe, England, Victorian period, ca. 19th century CE. A stunning gold pendant in the shape of an openwork hea

Western Europe, France, ca. 19th to 20th century CE. A delightful paperolle reliquary - a monastery work in which bits of old books, paper, gilding, glass beads, and gold wire are used to create a ric

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

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

**Originally Listed At $150** **Back at auction due to non-paying bidder. Western Europe, Venice, Italy, ca. 18th and 19th century CE. Three strands of Venetian trade beads - comprised of hundreds of

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, Venice (modern day Italy), found in western Africa, ca. 18th to early 19th century CE. A pretty collection of twenty-two matching trade beads, each a dark red, with yellow, white, and black ey

**First Time At Auction** Europe (Venice), found in eastern North America, ca. 18th to 19th century CE. Ten lovely glass chevron beads, made from tubes of glass cut into roughly cylindrical forms, and

**First Time At Auction** Eastern Europe, Russia (for manufacture), found in New World, Alaska, USA, ca. late 19th century CE. A collection of dozens of glass, cobalt blue Russian trade beads, each wi

**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,

**Originally Listed At $150** Europe, Venice (modern day Italy), found in western Africa, ca. 19th century CE. A beautiful necklace comprised of twenty-eight crimson-hued glass beads strung on a moder

**First Time At Auction** Europe, Italy, Venice, found in western Africa, ca. early 19th century CE. Five lovely strands of Venetian glass beads that were once used as currency pieces in European trad

Europe, Venice (modern day Italy), found in Western Africa, ca. 18th to early 19th century CE. A beautiful necklace comprised of over 50 millefiori glass beads. Most have an emerald-green and/or teal

**Originally Listed At $100** Europe, Venice (present day Italy), found in western Africa, ca. 18th to early 19th century CE. Three strands of glass trade beads: 23 millefiori beads of varied patterns

**Originally Listed At $100** Europe, Venice (modern day Italy), found in western Africa, ca. 18th to early 19th century CE. A group of dozens of deep blue, slightly translucent glass trade beads, mos

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

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