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Cement/Plaster beads

They are made from a compound variously described as "cement" and "plaster." Peter Francis talks about them in Beads of the World. I discuss them in my paper for the Istanbul Conference (2007). The Bead Museum has some from the Liese Collection. They can be richly-colored or paler. they do not really copy old beads, but are passed-off as old beads. Made since the mid-to-late 80s."
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