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Assortment of antique beads

Bought in Nepal, originally from Afganistan, China and nobody-knows-where-from
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  • some of them are called islamic beads. the big one is from mali or mauritania, the big round one is from sahara. some fossil. another ones are from Mauritania too, a kind of granit matrix with serpentine

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