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WORLDWIDE HISTORY OF BEADS (revised & expanded UK edition)

Lois Sherr Dubin

(hb) 396 pages, colour (2009) £39.95 + £6.75 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp5313)

A new updated, revised and expanded edition of Lois Dubin's 1987 volume The History of Beads which has been the must-have sourcebook of information about beads for over 20 years. The new 'Timeline' has been redesigned and updated and shows samples of various kinds of beads from all over the world arranged horizontally in chronological order. There is a completely new chapter on contemporary artist-made glass beads.

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AFRICAN BEADS. JEWELS OF A CONTINENT

Evelyn Simak with Carl Dreibelbis (Introduction by Lois Sherr Dubin, author of The History of Beads)

(hardback) 216 pages, colour (2010) £57.00 POST FREE! (Code no sp5116)

This book is a lavish, colourful heavy hardback full of scholarly research and amazing photographs. If you are a collector, jewellery maker, scholar, or just interested in beautiful beads, this book is a must! It has been produced in a limited edition and is the first book ever published about beads made in Africa (rather than traded to Africa). From 82,000 year old shell beads in Morocco to contemporary powder glass beads of the Krobo in Ghana, the authors trace the historical journey of beadmaking in Africa, showcasing some of the world's rarest, most beautiful and most collectable beads. There are sections on Bone, Teeth, Claws and Shells; Amber, Clay and Organics; Stone Beads; Metal Beads; Glass Beads (including Kori, powder glass, Bodom, Akoso, 'Kiffa' and Bida) and Ceramics, as well as a history of trade in Africa from antiquity to the present day. Evelyn is a member of the Bead Society of Great Britain and researches into indigenous African beads of all kinds. Carl has been a collector for nearly 40 years and has one of the best collections of rare African Bodom and Akoso beads in the world. They have put together what will be a notable reference work for many years to come

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GEMS & PRECIOUS STONES

Curzio Cipriani & Alessandro Borelli

(paperback) 384 pages, colour photos throughout (1986) £12.95 + £2.50 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here

Simon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones provides both the professional and casual collector and jewellery maker with a compact, easy-to-use volume describing more than 100 varieties of minerals, many of which have been used to make beads, cabochons and jewellery stones. Aspects covered are appearance, physical properties (density, hardness, refraction) occurrence and how to judge quality and value. Additional sections describe processing of gemstones.

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ORNAMENTS FROM THE PAST: BEAD STUDIES AFTER BECK

(ed) I.C. Glover, H. Hughes-Brock & J Henderson

(paperback) 156 pages, col and b&w photos (2003) £19.95 + £3.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here

This book on glass and semi-precious stone beads in history and archaeology is a must for archaeologists, bead collectors, jewellery historians - in fact anyone interested in different kinds of beads from around the world and through time. It is a series of eleven individual articles on glass and hard stone ornaments surviving from ancient societies and those made and worn by some traditional communities in the modern world. Earlier versions of many of the chapters were presented at the symposium "Bead STudies after Beck" organised by the Bead Study Trust and held in the McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge in April 1997.

Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs, papers include ones on Horace Beck, Mycenaean beads, Scandinavian and Viking beads, Sassanian beads, Celtic bead-making sites, SE Asian etched stone beads, African powder glass beads, bead making in Ghana and Stone beads from Myanmar (including 'pumtek').

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A BEAD TIMELINE Volume 1: Prehistory to 1200CE

James W Lankton

(paperback) 96pages,Colour photos (2003) £17.50+ £2.25 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here

Reaching back into prehistory, Jim lankton traces beads back through time following their role in the development of technology, politics, religion, ritual writing and commerce. In this volume (one of two, the second yet to come) he provides practical information for identifuing beads and focuses primarily on organic beads, shell, ivory, coral, amber, soft stones such as turqiuoise and lapis lazuli, hard stones such as carnelian, chalcedony, rock crystal and jade, as well as faience and glass.

The book reviews the important bead developments in Mesopotamia, the eastern Mediterranean and Egypt, the Hellenistic and Roman world, early Europe, South and Southeast Asia. China, Korea and Mesoamerica, and will become a must for all collectors of beads of these areas and periods - Prehistory to Medieval (i.e. c.1200AD).

Look out for Volume 2!!

History, Collecting and Manufacture of Beads - Collectable Beads

BEADS OF THE WORLD: A Collectors Guide

by Peter Francis Jr

(paperback) 142 pages, colour photos throughout (1994) £19.95 + £4.50 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here

Covers the identification, manufacture and uses of many of the world's collectable beads. Sections on collecting, materials etc.