Accession No

TEMP.00065


Description

Six cards of mounted trade beads, sewn together onto a cardboard sheet. Each card holds beads sewn into an area demarcated by red lines, with handwritten information to the right. 45 beads total.


Place

Europe; ?Italy; ?Venice


Period

Modern


Source

?Beck, Horace


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

TEMP.00065; 17515; K.46; 17516; K.44; 17517; K.48; 17518; K.49; 17519; K.50; 17520; K.51; 17537; 17538; 17539; 17540; 17541; 17542; 17543; 17544; 17545; 17546; 17547; 17548; 17549; 17550; 17551; 17552; 17561; 17562; 17563; 17564; 17565; 17566; 17567; 17568; 17569; 17570; 17571; 17572; 17573; 17574; 17575; 17576; 17577; 17578; 17579; 17580; 17581; 17582; 17583


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Events

Description (CMS Description)
Six cards of mounted trade beads, sewn together onto a cardboard sheet. Each card holds beads sewn into an area demarcated by red lines, with handwritten information to the right. 45 beads total.
Event Date 11/2/2015
Author: maa


Context (CMS Context)
Mounted trade beads such as these were collected by Horace Beck and it may be that these were from his collection that were donated to MAA in 1947. However, none of the numbers written on the card are listed in Beck's catalogue cards, so it may be that the beads came to the museum from another source or that Beck received these beads from another collector and never assigned them his own numbering system. For the time being, therefore, the source is tentatively given as Beck.
Event Date 22/3/2017
Author: Amy Dolben


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