Simply screw off the end, slide your beads onto the stick and screw the end back on. Attach with a jump ring to any necklace and you are done. Stick measures 40mm long between the ends, has a thickness of 1.6mm. Beads you choose must have a hole no smaller than that, obviously. Available in either Gold tone OR Silver tone. Sold for $3.00 each with a minimum of 3pcs, either color. Buy a dozen of a color at a time and pay only $2.25 each! Bead Pendants are extremely popular and easy to make. Work with virtually any shape bead with the proper hole including rondelles. Order the GIZMO in either color, computer will take quantity discount.
A splash of gold on these Czech beads, 1954, which we have in several varieties, as you can see. The first here are ovals, faceted ovals, and measure 8x11mmThese are sold in lots of 12 for $18, by color. Three colors available, pink, crystal clear, or jet black. Order# BDVN2531, see pull down for others, by color. Use the pull down menu to make your selections.
Flat ovals with a splash of gold, these are available in but two varieties, pink and crystal and measure 8x11mm also. These are sold in lots of 12 for $13.50, by color. Two colors available, pink or crystal clear . Order# BDVN2515. Use the pull down menu to make your selections.
Rounds in 3 sizes and 4 colors.
Sold as follows, by color.
Select from the drop down menus. Style number varies by size and color, computer knows so you don't have to.
Rarest of the bunch, these are 8mm mottled gold splash, which you can see. The bead color, the only one found so far, is a deep glowing topaz. A magnificent bead but alas there are very few to be had. Such is the fate of the unique vintage bead. Order# BDVN111.
Sorry, all gone!
Phenomenal combination, this is Blue Diamond, like that famous diamond in that movie..what was the name? The basic bead is a Swarovski Black Diamond and there is a blue finish on one side, hence..Blue Diamond. Tough to photograph though. My mother wanted me to be a beeper salesman but I wouldn't listen! I had to become an internet photographer! Photographing things like this makes beeper salesman sound awfully good. Oh well, maybe next time..Still, I do have some talent as a photographer, Click Here,Judge for yourself!. These are 8mm round, $15/dozen. Order# BD-VN6156.
Perfect copies of the egg of the rare Foo bird (pronounced FOO, as in "food"), found only in the upper lowlands of central Northwestern Europe on the Southern side near the Eastern High Valley. The Foo bird was known for it's ability to bestow luck upon recipients of its "gifts". Furthermore, the bird had the distinct habit of stepping in the gifts of other Foo birds, presumably to prevent the unworthy from collecting them. These beads were made to fool the Foo bird by placing them in the nest whilst the dastardly poacher would steal the real eggs, to hatch them and bestow upon himself fortunes and riches. Ocassionally, however, the Foo bird would return to the nest whilst this act was being carried out, and the thief would often run for his life! In the confusion, many times it is said, the thieves mistakenly took back their own beads rather than the eggs. Being perfect copies, they could never be sure which they had. To this day, no one is really sure if these rare and beautiful beads are indeed beads, perhaps they are eggs as the hatching time (known in the trade as the gestation period) is approximately 6 decades, give or take a few fortnight. Lovely to look at, and lucky to hold, but if they hatch you'll never get old! Naturally, we do not have all that many as the poor Foo bird, a victim of this nasty scheme, has become extinct. Or has it? Only one way to find out.....Measures 10mm, which is 40% of an inch. Genuine gold foil in there, smidgen of green, red and black in a crystal clear bead would fool any Foo bird except the ones that are Harvard graduates. Sold in lots of 12 for $15. Two lots will get them for $12 per lot. Order #BDVN5304.
The last time we have a record of this bead being used it was in 1955, and the designer was Miriam Haskell. You can see this bead in that use by clicking here. This is the last of them, it is a 9.5mm cube in amber, translucent, and is sold in lots of 6 for $18, a rare bead with a pedigree. the hole runs catty-corner. See the picture and you will see what I mean. A picture is worth a thousand words. Order Item# BDVN-1065.
6 pcs $18, 9.5mm.
Joulan, not to be confused with Joulet. Apparently either the same or a similar base, this item was also made by Swarovski on a special consignment and confined to a single customer. My father acquired these Swarovski custom made beads at an auction in the early 50's, to date this is the only one I have uncovered in this color. It very well may be the only one in existence, no way to tell if these things were made in more than one size until we discover another, and so far we haven't. Looking at this bead will tell you why Swarovski beads are/were so popular, absolutely incredible. It is in the pink-cranberry family, that is as close as I can get. They are round, there is a finish on them that shows as reflections in the photo, and I do not expect these to be here too long. Measure 5mm. Sold in lots of 12 for $16.50. Till they are gone, then, no price will attain them. And you will cry and cry, to no avail for once they are gone they are gone forever. Ominous thought, no? Order Item #BDVN6364.
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Another old Italian, made in 1949 in Italy where a lot of Italian things came from. Hand painted pink flowers over a cavitated white center, with gold spinning around inside a clear bead. This is a real beauty, looks phenomenal in real life, looks nice on the page too but wait till you hold this bead. We are not responsible if you swoon. This bead is handmade, as most vintage were, and measures from 13-14mm, slightly lump shaped as opposed to round, it is not round, it is not cube, it is lump shaped. Sold in lots of 12 for $21.00, do not expect it to be here too long at that price! ORDER # BDVN2071.
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This is a peculiar bead. It was a Japanese copy from 1948 but we don't know what it is that they copied! Called a peculiar bead because it was first described by P. Culiar, the famous bead explorer. Bead measures 8mm, mostly round. Basically a greyish white with a swirling black swirly thing that swirls about the bead. Sold in lots of 12 for $10, and them there black swirls are included at no extra charge, this week only! Measures 8mm more or less. Order Item #BDVN5301.
A group of hand-chased disk spacers, facetted on the edges. The first is 8mm, black, with silver facets on the sides. The rest are sold out, so they are not here. Hand chasing was used before diamond cutting was invented. The effect was similar, although the process was a lot more costly. These black ones are 8mm across, have a "pocket" that will hug another bead and cap it. All from Japan, late 40's. Vintage GLASS, not like the plastic copies around. Sold in lots of 6 for $9. Order # BDS-VN375M.
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