Earth tone mummy beads make a beautiful collector piece or perfect accents to your handmade jewelry. These beads were acquired in Egypt in the late 1960s into Shashi's personal collection. We've offered them before to some of our wholesale collectors, but never to the general public. They were made by hand in approximately 2000 BC. Authenticity is guaranteed.
9 grams of earth tone mummy beads. Beads size varies, most are very small. The beads are mostly intact with a high gloss, but your shipment may include some beads with broken ends or which have lost their sheen.
Egyptian Mummy Beads - Earth Tones - Small, Antique 3000 Years old
SKU: B MB ETSM 9G
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Customer Reviews
This is the entire order I received which doesn’t seem to be worth 116.00 dollars. Quite a few are broken. I would want ten times the amount of beads to feel more satisfied and I don’t want broken beads. What can a person do with a jumbled box of broken beads. And there is no way of knowing where they came from to share with my customers if I use them in a pair of earrings. Verified? Authentic? Sourcing?
These beads were sourced directly from Egypt in the 1960s. My father purchased them by the kilogram for use in the Shashi and Laurel Burch lines, back when these lines were being featured on the cover of Vogue and such. Beads like this are swept off tomb floors and collected in a dustpan, as the strings that once held the beads together generally proved more fragile than the faience.
Sue McGovern-Huffman (Sands of Time Antiquities) worked with one of our wholesale clients in order to authenticate some of our beads, but I am not sure whether the specific lot sold here was covered.
This product is described as 'mostly intact'. Your photo seems to confirm my description. I mention this in the description because in the last 4000 years, some of the beads have lost the ability to string cleanly.
This product is specifically 9 grams of beads. If you find that amount insufficient for your project, we are happy to supply you with a larger quantity. One of the photos shows what 9 grams of beads look like. Please be advised that the bead sizes vary, and your 9 grams might look a little bigger or smaller than that photo.
We're one of the only sources in the world for these artifacts. It's not difficult to find examples of individual beads on a necklace that retail for over $100, in many cases, I supplied these beads for a price similar to what you paid. Assuming you are not looking for them wholesale by the pound, you are unlikely to find authentic beads at a similar price point.
The beads looked just like the photo. I am not happy that there was no certificate of authenticity Included. I don’t feel that I can sell jewelry I make without one.
I just finished working with them, they are wonderful to work with; no broken beads, and so many more than I expected! Colors are magnificently faded and so beautiful. I am positively delighted! They shipped quickly as well, and were very well packaged.