Antique Venetian Chevron Star Trade Bead 25 inch Long STRAND 5 Layer-44 beads

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Antique Venetian Chevron Star Trade Bead 25 inch Long STRAND 5 Layer-44 beads:
$2850.00

a full strand of antique Venetian chevron beadscomposed of five layers of colored glass with clear glass centersFrom the 17th or18th century Venice, Italyexported to West Africa or the Americas

There are 44 beads totalall approximately 5/8\" in diameterand range in length from 1/4\" to 5/8\"the total strand length is 25\". Total weight is 9.6 oz
I owned a bead shop in Ohio in the late 1970\'s and itinerate African traders would travel from bead shop--to- bead shop across the country in a van full of African Trade Beads.This is from some of the 1,000\'s of strands I selected...but never separated them because of their finer quality. One bead is broken..see last photothere are almost not pits or chips ..actually I don\'t see any...but am saying almost ...just in case