Strand of Small Chartreuse Majapahit Beads peanut beads Strand of new Indian silver

Strand of new Indian silver beads

30mm x 27mm x 6mm thick pendant with the likeness of Lan Caihe aka 蓝采和 (An Eternal Teenager) one of the 8 Immortals of Chinese mythology

75mm towards the center of the bead

This is 1 gram of silver

Low silver content boxy pendant from Morocco’s Berber tribe

Strand of Small Chartreuse Majapahit Beads peanut beads Strand of new Indian silver22" strand of small, medium, and large size (11 21mm diameter) Chartreuse Majapahit beads These glass beads are somewhere between 500 700 years old. They are lovely things made in and around Java Indonesia and traded by the Chinese all over South Asia. Nowadays they are often lumped in with other Tradewind beads. While some of the beads still have their smooth finish, most of the ones on this strand have been damaged by time and are pitted and cracked