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These are really wonderful. Where are they from?
I am awestruck. I am crazy about carved carnelian.
Toya & Anna...I found these in a very unassuming dusty little shop in Chaing Mai Thailand recently from a lovely gentle old man whose English was not very good. I bought a lot of old Naga beads from him and gleaned that a lot of his stock comes from a trader in Burma so I think they may have come from India (?). The moment I saw them my heart stopped and knew I simply must have them!!!
I can see why. Carnelian, especially etched or carved, will do that. I recall the day I was going through a small bowl filled with ancient beads from Iran that my husband had brought back from an Iranian dealer in New York. I picked up a rectangular bead of good size and felt some very worn incising on each face of the stone. I took it to the window to examine it and found that it was a seal designed not as a cylinder but with a separate image on each panel of the bead. I was so thrilled!