Yellow snake vertebrae beads (Bohemia)

Yellow “snake vertebrae” necklace –Bohemia– (origin: Koforidua, Ghana)

When in 1840 the brothers Richard and Thomas Prosser devised that cold glass paste that can be molded under pressure before being fired, a period began that forever changed the world of trade accounts. Nothing was the same from then on, because with the Prosser technique also came mechanization that lowered costs and made glass more affordable.

In northern Bohemia they understood this very early and, after the middle of the 19th century, they adopted and perfected Prosser techniques for their own benefit. From then on, Bohemian beads, of very varied shapes and colors, assaulted African markets.

One of the most desired bohemian beads was the one that imitated the python vertebrae with which the fortune tellers of the Gold Coast adorned themselves. The necklace of 117 bohemian "five-pointed vertebrae" beads strung on a 94 cm cotton cord that we offer you at Black Market is, without a doubt, a very special piece.

Weight: 0.12 Kg