By: david

david — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:09:08 +0000

Dear Jamey: This is an open scientific site. If you have something to contribute all we ask for is to do it with courtesy. David

By: Jamey Allen

Jamey Allen — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:42:10 +0000

David, I urge you to contact me for information about Tibetan zi beads. Jamey

By: david

david — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:04:12 +0000

Dear rg,
They have been making these types of beads for over 4,500 years and still make them today. They re-cut and re-polish old ones, and they were very good at heating and cracking the stone and dying them in the 19th and 20th century. I will be doing more articles on beads, over time, but old beads look old, is the first thing to remember ( but then they have made and still make Peking glass beads and agate beads and acid etch them to look old). The manganese dendrites, when formed inside the fired agate is of undeniable age- The color of the fired on iron oxides and calcium carbonates is another. The old trick of using oil to see if a bead is old does not work if a bead has been re-polished sufficiently. Read how I clean them – if can not clean them then it is not a 100% guarantee as they sometime re-dyed them after re-polishing (and sometimes they even re-drilled the holes), so you have to find a place they missed when re-polishing the bead that has old ‘pitting’ and tooling marks. The deep cracking on old beads is almost impossible to fake because it was done naturally over time. Light cracking means usually newer beads. David

By: rg

rg — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:41:30 +0000

sir i have seen some of the dzi beads too but till now i have no ides wat i have seen is real or fake tell me some technique to know the original dzi beada bye the above article is some is helpful to me

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