Beautiful old Millefiori-esque fancy Venetian bead strand with a handful of beautiful green gooseberry beads. 119 venetian beads, avg 6mm long, 15mm wide. There are 8 lightly striped venetian green gooseberry beads, extremely rare color 10mm long and 15mm wide avg. This item is from a large, three generation collection of Native American art and artifacts from the estate of Bernard Clayton Conger. Conger was an avid collector of beads, points, pipes, effigys pottery and other items. Traveled from the Eastern US first to California and then to southern Oregon. Part of his collection was pictured in’Who’s Who in Indian Relics No. His collection consisted of his own personal finds as well as his father’s and grandfather’s collections. Please see my other auctions for more unique pieces from this estate. It is an extremely nice strand. It is guaranteed 100% authentic, from the collection of a recognized collector, Bernard Conger.