Carnelian Bead (ex Bill Larson Collection)

Item Description

A really cool antique bead from the an ancient city of Bagan (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) in Myanmar. The piece is a beautiful polished elongated piece of reddish-orange Carnelian shaped into a bead, with inlay white painted bands on each ends. It's hard to say specifically how old the piece is, but it could certainly date back over 100 years or more. The piece weighs 30.1 grams. A really cool piece from an ancient city reflecting its beautiful culture. It's impossible to put a value on something like this since it's a completely unique, handmade, antique piece of jewelry/art, I can safely say that you may never see another like it, so this may be your only chance to get one like it. From the collection of Bill ("Burma Bill") Larson of Fallbrook, California. Bill is a well-known gem and mineral dealer as well as a miner and collector. Bill traveled the world for decades in search of fine gems and minerals, and was directly involved in the in-person acquisition and importation of superb specimens and stones from Myanmar (Burma). You can read his biography at https://mineralogicalrecord.com/biographies_labels/larsonwilliam-f/