Red Vaseline Beads

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Red Vaseline Beads

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Our Price: $22.50

Found in: West Africa
Strand Length: 24"
Approximate # of Beads: 68

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Product Code: VASELINE-202

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Each of these beautiful 'Vaseline' red recycled glass beads are approximately 3/8 X 5/8, larger and smaller thicknesses. The strand is 24 inches long, bead to bead.

Vaseline beads come from West Africa, and were made beginning in the early 1900's. Originally, these African beads were made from glass that was enriched in 1-2% uranium oxide in order to enhance the color, causing the green and yellow ones to fluoresce brightly under a blacklight. But the use of uranium was banned in the 1940's. Although these beads come from and are used in Africa, they were manufactured in Bohemia and Czechoslovakia.