Old Kiffa Bead from Mauritania quartz 54mm tall x 50mm wide

54mm tall x 50mm wide x 15mm thick (hollow) with two small 3mm loops at the top

Lovely matte finish pink glass with gold

Large Chinese-made high silver content repoussé "lock" pendant that features with a happy go-lucky little boy and the Jin Chan (Chinese: 金蟾) aka the three-legged "Golden Toad") which is a popular Feng Shui charm for prosperity

while the third may have a higher tin content thus giving it a look of pewter

22" strand of red Venetian glass beads (no white heart) made in the mid-1800s and traded in Africa

Old Kiffa Bead from Mauritania quartz 54mm tall x 50mm wideThis very cool and magical bead was made in Kiffa, Mauritania. It is very old and was made as a female fertility charm, mainly by women artists. Historically, Kiffa beads are very important as its ancient technique (dating to 1000 years ago) made it one of the oldest glass bead making processes in Africa, which was purely African in origin. This bead is around 200 years old, possibly older; 9mm tall x 11mm diameter. Fabricated to mimic a popular