Trade Beads Postem If You Gotem

[monsterrack]

I see folks asking about trade beads and thought why not show them some. This is a few of different types that I have been blessed with.View attachment 882421View attachment 882423View attachment 882429

 

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[Cosmo]

Monster they are super cool. Some of them look like hard candy. Were they all personal finds?

 

[ncnurseryman]

Just curious, how can you tell if they are native American?

 

[monsterrack]

To answer 2 question I was there when they saw daylight.

 

[painterx7]

Them are some killer beads rack !!! I'm still looking for my first

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Here's the ones that I have. I don't have a better picture of the blue one in the first two photos, but it is faceted and very nice. The ones in the third picture are all from California and were a gift from the finder for my states collection.

 

[RJGMC]

Monsterrack,

Do you think it would be worth while to hunt on the banks of the Missouri river in a possible (read as very likely) spot that was a trade site around the Lewis and Clark era? By hunt, I mean spend some time with a sifter. Would these beads in the first photos likely be captured by a 1/4 or 3/8 inch wire screen?

Thanks!

RJGMC
HI BOB!

 

[monsterrack]

Monsterrack,

Do you think it would be worth while to hunt on the banks of the Missouri river in a possible (read as very likely) spot that was a trade site around the Lewis and Clark era? By hunt, I mean spend some time with a sifter. Would these beads in the first photos likely be captured by a 1/4 or 3/8 inch wire screen?


When sifting for small items I use a frame made with 3/8 screen that sits on top of a frame made with 1/4 screen. I sift through the 3/8 size and then remove it and sift on through the 1/4. Beware seed beads will fall through the 1/4 screen, if I find any seed beads I use screen door wire. Your hunting site would be worth looking into, just remember trade beads where not worth anything to the trappers, they where a trade item, but they did not have much tied up in them, so they could have just thrown them on the ground around their trading post JMO, and yes 1/4 screen would catch most of those beads, the largest is 1/2 in. wide and the smallest is 1/4 wide. GOOD LUCK

 

[old digger]

Very nice collection of beads you have!

Here are just a few. I have a ''Russian Blue'' just like the one in the center, in your second photo.






Two different types of buttons.



Surrounded with seed beads, and the center item is my mystery piece that was found with some of the beads.

 

[GatorBoy]

Just never found many by me.
This is it.
One is a Russian blue.. the black one I believe is a type of Luis and Clark.

 

[Sheperdess]

I am not at home for a few days, but I will put mine on when I get back. They are fun to look at. Do those shoe buttons count as beads??

 

[GatorBoy]

Here's the ones that I have. I don't have a better picture of the blue one in the first two photos, but it is faceted and very nice. The ones in the third picture are all from California and were a gift from the finder for my states collection.

Its hard for me to tell in the photos... how many of those are trade beads and not native made bone, shell and teeth?
They are all nice.

 

[GatorBoy]

Very nice collection of beads you have!

Here are just a few. I have a ''Russian Blue'' just like the one in the center, in your second photo.

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Two different types of buttons.

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Surrounded with seed beads, and the center item is my mystery piece that was found with some of the beads.

That piece looks like it would have had a prize ribbon or Mabey a metal hung below it.
It's probably associated with the early 1900's buttons.

 

[unclemac]

I am not at home for a few days, but I will put mine on when I get back. They are fun to look at. Do those shoe buttons count as beads??

acually "yes"...buttons do count as beads. a lot of trade post traded in buttons...usually the white "prosser" buttons. but be fore warned...when you are finding beads or buttons in the dirt in any great number...you are also very likely into a burial....AND most of the time the "human remains" are nothing more than a discoloration of the surrounding dirt...no bones.....

 

[kinchafoonee]

South Ga find

 

[old digger]

That piece looks like it would have had a prize ribbon or Mabey a metal hung below it.
It's probably associated with the early 1900's buttons.

I like your suggestion, I was thinking that it may be part of a zipper pull, but that's just suggestion.

 

[monsterrack]

acually "yes"...buttons do count as beads. a lot of trade post traded in buttons...usually the white "prosser" buttons. but be fore warned...when you are finding beads or buttons in the dirt in any great number...you are also very likely into a burial....AND most of the time the "human remains" are nothing more than a discoloration of the surrounding dirt...no bones.....

unclemac you are so right, sometimes the only thing left is teeth enamel and if you are finding beads as if they were laid in the ground in a row, you may be in a burial.

 

[BosnMate]

These are beads I found just after WWII in Avila Beach, California. The army had dug a lookout or gun emplacement
in the middle of an Indian mound. As kids we played army in the remains of their bunker. Every time we went there
I found beads, and brought them home to my mother, and she saved them for me. The county widened the road
and the mound has been bull dozed and is gone now. I also found two white glass trade beads, but they have been
lost long ago. Probably some of the other beads I found have been lost also, but this is what I have left.

 

[unclemac]

very nice indeed

 

[texasvarmit]

You guys blow me away with your collections of Indian beads, I thought there weren't too many folks who collected them, as they are so rare, but looks like I was wrong. Some seriously nice old beads...if only they could talk.