Strand of Small Chartreuse Majapahit Beads silver spacer Set of seven ancient stone

Set of seven ancient stone quartz beads from excavated from sites in Djenne

24" strands

knotted with brass bead caps

light pink with blue and white polka dot glass bead from the late 1700s or early 1800s

Strand of Small Chartreuse Majapahit Beads silver spacer Set of seven ancient stone22" 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