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The Frost Trade Bead Collection Gallery

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Eye Beads and Ambassador Beads

The beads in the left-hand column are thousand-eye beads. The two right-hand columns contain French Ambassador beads that have the surface decoration of floral designs and swirls. Beads 327-341 and 348-352 are among the types especially favored by Late Victorian and Edwardian Age milliners.

Collection of the Illinois State Museum
Photgraphed by Gary Andrashko
ISM Accession #: 1941-0083

Eye Beads and Ambassador Beads

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