Your GENUINE ANCIENT ROMAN GLASS BEADS are 2,000 years old, and were found in the Holyland, from a site not far from the city of Jerusalem. These beads could very well have been worn by one of the Apostles. Look on the internet for more information about Ancient Rome in the Holyland, and experience the Glory That Was Rome, by wearing your Jewels of Ancient Lands Holyland Roman Glass creations! Continue reading
Your Ur-Style Pearl & Copper Earrings could easily have been worn by a woman of the early Bronze Age, when metallurgical embellishments included granulation, as do the ones you’ll be making. Granulation is a hand-craft. The beautiful but slightly irregularly shaped off-round pearls are similar to the Mediterranean pearl, the last of which were fished out of the sea many centuries ago.
Your Genuine Ancient Egyptian 26th Dynasty Tube Bead Copper Earring Set is strictly limited. Your set is one of only 35 sets total, made from this hoard of totally authentic guaranteed genuine ancient Egyptian Faience Tube Beads and modern copper.
PLEASE NOTE: Ancient Faience Tube Beads are DELICATE. They cannot be subjected to pressure, and are subject to damage from water, mis-handling and other environmental accidents. In this Project, you learn to deal with the fact that these ancient ceramic beads are very, very delicate and must be handled and worn with care. Continue reading
The first choice comes when you select two stones for your Hellenistic earrings. Try the .22 gauge wire first. Gently push the wire through the drill-hole in the bead to see if it will work. If EITHER bead is reluctant to accept the .22 gauge wire, switch to the much thinner .24 gauge wire.
The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Sumerians and Babylonians were incredible builders and engineers. This earring depends upon a bridge-engineering discovery they made many tens of thousands of years ago, that translates into bead technology as: a vertical wire will support a bead better than a horizontal wire. Continue reading
There is no such thing as “scrap”. That’s my opening gambit for how to make a small independent jewelry company pay off well enough to keep you off the welfare rolls for as long as you can produce fine jewelry at a moment’s notice, and with my Method, you’ll be able to turn out splendid product for as long as you can still move your fingers.
“Scrap” is a headspace, a concept of waste mismanagement that can’t survive for very long in a jewelry studio, simply because it’s just too doggone expensive. You need to learn how to conserve energy in the form of effort, but also in the form of gold, silver, copper and gemstones. Continue reading
If you’ve ever wanted to contact a past life, ancient beads are a great and inexpensive way to make solid and powerful quantum connections. Since I acquired my ancient beads, which was from 1960-1989, I’ve been salting them away for psychometric use.
Many of the more expensive beads went into Jewels of Ancient Lands productions, sold many years ago in Beverly Hills, San Francisco, New York & Atlanta jewelry boutiques for many thousands of dollars.
Those fabulous ancient and medieval glass and stone beads are long-gone, and cannot be repeated. The bead market that came out of Mali, Africa, has vanished forever — all you’ll find at that once-great international bead market are beads coming out of other places, notably Pakistan, China and Ethiopia. Continue reading
Recognize this street? Well, you should. You died here in a gunfight in 1878, and that wasn’t the first or last time you died, but it’s an easy Past Life to remember, because the trauma was so strong. It wasn’t that big a deal to die — here you still are to tell the tale. “Death Row” was the name given to this Old West “Main Street” that saw over 100 gunfights in its day.
That’s one thing about death that people don’t generally realize. Death is not permanent. In fact, death is so damn impermanent, it’s a pain in the ass, and I’ll explain why. You finally get the hang of a life you’re living, and wham! Along comes Death to wreck the show … but wait, weren’t you just barely crawling along, whizzing around in a wheelchair with a bottle of oxygen and a long clear plastic tube.
So how would you like to remember this death? You’d rather not re-experience a death? I don’t blame you, death is never pleasant, although it can be a great relief if you’re in terrific unbearable and unrelenting pain. Still, it’s not something we naturally seek, nor are we intended to. You’re here to do a job because you can. You were born with the ability to carry out your work mission. Whether you do it or decide to whack off for your whole life is entirely up to you. Continue reading
This is just one of the very large etching plates in this exquisitely rare book. The artist drew from life, a presentation of the play from November 27 through December 1, 1883. Farren lived at Cambridge but moved to Scarborough for his health, in 1889. The costumed players were all members of Cambridge University Classic Arts Department. There is no other intact copy known. Most were plundered for these incredible etchings. The price is very reasonable — $1850 cash, no credit. This came originally from Hacker Books in NYC and is among the rarest 19th century books known. Not an easy book to sell, this is very, very esoteric — but someone at Cambridge might be interested in acquiring it, eh?
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Jewels of Ancient Lands (http://www.jewelsofancientlands.com) is renowned for its collection of newly-made necklaces, earrings, bracelets and other jewelry items made with actual ancient stone, shell, faience, glass and bronze beads. Over the past several decades, a vast store of “extra” ancient beads began to amass itself. It is this group of more than 10,000 ancient beads, many of which have not been in the marketplace for over 30 years, that is being offered in this one-day “trunk-show” sale at Mana Beads in Nevada City, California.
Some of the beads in the show date back to the very beginning of civilization, the Late Stone Age, about 10,000 years ago. The cultures represented range from Egyptian 18th Dynasty through Greek, Roman, Medieval and Genuine rarely seen African Tribal beads made in Africa by Africans during the 19th century.
Other cultures represented will be early Tibetan, Pre-Columbian, Western Asiatic, Mongolian and more.
Also featured will be silver and gold rings, bracelets, earrings and necklaces artisaned in Grass Valley & Nevada City, all of which are made precisely in the ancient style, using .925 sterling silver or 18 karat gold, together with guaranteed authentic ancient beads most of which are over 2,000 years old.
Prices start at only $4 per bead. These “starter” ancient beads are intended for the youngster beginning collectors, but an adult may buy one for a gift to a youngster.
Very rare beads can run much higher, into the hundreds. Serious bead collectors will not be disappointed. No collection this large, this extensive or this important in the ancient bead trade has been shown for many years, and some of the beads in the collection cannot be replaced at any price.
The reason for the sale? To introduce young people to the vast and wonderful world of history — the collection will be curated and sold by a group of educators, who also happen to be members of FAXL, a local “geezer band” that will be playing jazz, blues, folk-rock and a bit of bluegrass, if they’re asked, just outside the shop, on the front guest area.
Refreshments will be served.
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Songbirds were a favorite dish in the Ancient World, and some folks still eat birds even today. Pigeons, chickens, turkeys, ducks, and all manner of wild game birds, hunting season permitting.
It’s not only birds — we’ve always eaten things we find around the planet, and in ancient times, that went double.
Importing food and spices from faraway places created a demand for what is today called the gourmet food market, which includes spices, herbs, and very expensive olive oil and vinegar for the upwardly mobile yuppie of today.
We can today live and work in Ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece and even our home base, Planet Ten, all accessed by way of the 8th Dimension.
So how about joining me in reading the menu for a festival dinner with a middle-class Roman family? The feast is already in the oven. Here’s the menu for ancient Rome today: