Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead Red Coral Strand of antique Peking opaque

Strand of antique Peking opaque white glass beads

white and blue mille Fiori cane

Large and chunky antique tribal cylindrical bead made from conch shell

We also have darker red ones from Yemen

Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead Red Coral Strand of antique Peking opaqueThis very cool and magical bead was made in Kiffa, Mauritania. It is very old and was made as a female fertility charm, mainly by women artists. Historically, Kiffa beads are very important as its ancient technique (dating to 1000 years ago) made it one of the oldest glass bead making processes in Africa, which was purely African in origin. This bead is around 200 years old, possibly older, and it has been enhanced sometime in the early 1900s (the