VINTAGE GERMAN GLASS BEADS Black TWIST 12x5mm pkg 4 GL454

Description

Vintage West German pressed black glass beads that are an oval twist with diagonal swirled "stripes" as you can see in the photographs.

** If you love these beads please check out my item GL-432 which is very similar but in red! I combined these two beads in a number of designs I did in the 1980's and the effect was striking!***

These beads were difficult to photograph so that you could see all the swirls - Hopefully you can see the detail in the pictures as it's very hard to photograph black beads!

The way that this type of bead was made ( pressed glass ) is fascinating! The glass that was going to be used was first heated on a mandrel (rod) in much the same way that lamp work beads are made today.
A 'press' which almost resembled tongs used to cook with, was then wrapped around the molten glass to form the desired shape. Many times, VERY detailed impressions were on the ends of these tongs that were used in these vintage West German ' pressed' glass beads so that the final bead looked almost as if it were 'etched' or 'carved'.

You certainly will never find beads like this at your local bead shop!

Price is for 4 of these 12mm x 5mm x5mm beads which we 100% guarantee to be vintage West German glass from the 1950's. They're in excellent condition considering they are over 40 years old.

I sold many such unique and one of a kind glass beads through the Smithsonian Institution's museum shop and mail order catalog during the 1980's and they were also featured in trunk shows at Bloomingdales and Saks Fifth Avenue during this same time period.

You can read more about my career as a jewelry designer in my profile

Added on Nov 05, 2009

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