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  Joost Daalder July 10, 2011 at 2:44pm

  I know too little about these to comment. But go to the Bead Collector Network, and you'll probably find out within 30 minutes or so, if you upload this. http://beadcollector.net/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi?fvp=/openforum/&c.... I owe the reference to Sarah Corbett, and have found that forum tremendously helpful. They would seem to know just about anything about beads there, with a great many members with different kinds of knowledge. So do try them - not least because you obviously love beads!!
  
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  Joost Daalder July 10, 2011 at 2:45pm

  You'd have to register - but that is little trouble, and well worth doing!
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  Stefany Tomalin July 10, 2011 at 4:53pm

  you will find plenty of information about these types at BCN but may have to search the past messages.

  Its a difficult type to be clear about:

  if they are what i recognise, yes, the glass is quite old but broken bits of bangles, vessels etc are very often recently re-shaped and drilled to become  components of new jewellery. The curved sections of decorated bangles shape easily into attractive bird-like profiles.

  these necklaces have been around since the later 1990's and are not expensive. So long as scientific excavations havent been plundered to obtain the material, and you know they are newly recycled waste antique glass then -enjoy them!

   
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  Jamey D. Allen July 12, 2011 at 2:34pm

  I have been documenting these recent forgeries for about fifteen years.  They are manufactured in Pakistan, but usually sold as from "Afghanistan."  Every year or so, they produce a new batch of these beads--made by recycling glass artifacts.  The earliest ones were bracelet fragments.  However, despite assertions that the glass is "ancient," it's possible the whole story is a fraud, and these beads are entirely trumped-up.  (That is, made from non-ancient and certainly non-Roman glass.)  I have written about these products numerous times, including at BC.N and in my paper for the Istanbul Bead Conference in 2007.  Jamey
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  Stefany Tomalin July 12, 2011 at 2:56pm

  this stringing layout- having a pendant-like dangle at the centre below a long bead that the thread goes through twice, and then an empty section of not too thin twisted thread at the back/top, but no opening or clasp, is very typical for afghanistan bead necklaces that many people bring back from Peshawar which is just inside Pakistan. I've often seen and dealt in necklaces of mottled lapis, or that pale green chalcedony in various shaped beads strung this way.