Shipwreck Sale: Beautiful & Colorful Strand of Roman Glass Beads

These beads are Roman glass. Period. Simple.

They are beautiful (I think to most), colorful and different shapes. I do not know details of how they were made or even if the glass is 2,000 years old and perhaps was cut into beads a few years ago. I believe they were originally made as beads.

Their shapes are similar but all different. The patterns and colors likewise. Some are translucent, most not or more opaque. Enlarge the photos, examine the beads and decide if you're as excited about them as I am. I wish I had multiples to offer!

To share my enthusiasm I will send these postpaid--no shipping cost to the buyer.

A LITTLE EXTRA PERSONAL BACKGROUND: I've never made it much of a secret that I have been enamored of Roman glass artifacts ever since a trip I made to Israel and Greece in 1980. I just absorbed everything like a very large sponge. I was overwhelmed with the history. In fact, of all the things I've collected over my lifetime, one of my absolute favorites is a terra cotta ankle and part of a foot from a statue. While walking in tall grass far from any civilization on one of the Greek Islands (I can't remember which but we visited many) I found this maybe 4-inch and 1 1/2-inch diameter treasure that no one wanted. I understand that at least 44 years ago such a find would be classified as pretty much junk. Maybe it would today, too. In walks like this in Israeil and the Greek Islands the landscape is littered with pot/clay fragments. Don't picture a yellow brick road, but an easy country hike with gravel, rocks and weeds. Pawing through it you might find 4 or 5 small such pieces in a foot-square area in which you're looking.

Most countries forbid visitors from removing important or even not-so-important artifacts. I'm quite sure no one would object to someone taking 4-5 pebbles or bits of terra cotta.

That trip made me both a collector and seller of antiquities, on an a very tiny scale for the next few decades. But that trip is part of the string of events leading to this sale with many stops in between.

SHIPPING: It's not a lot but to share my enthusiasm for Roman glass I'll pay the postage on this lot--postpaid, no charge to the buyer.