Strand of Small Chartreuse Majapahit Beads peanut beads This is 1 gram of

This is 1 gram of silver

Lovely brassy-bronze color (very little silver content)

and ornate engravings

light-weight fluted beads made in India over 100 years ago

Low silver content boxy pendant from Morocco’s Berber tribe

Strand of Small Chartreuse Majapahit Beads peanut beads This is 1 gram of22" strand of small, medium, and large size (11 21mm diameter) Chartreuse Majapahit beads These glass beads are somewhere between 500 700 years old. They are lovely things made in and around Java Indonesia and traded by the Chinese all over South Asia. Nowadays they are often lumped in with other Tradewind beads. While some of the beads still have their smooth finish, most of the ones on this strand have been damaged by time and are pitted and cracked