Silver Beads

Faceted little beads, each stamped with a tiny square like a box in a box.

This is a coin silver beads. Silver beads are often textured with grooves, granules or stamped patterns, and the metal softens in tone with time and handling. Captured here is a small pile of many angular beads with flat faces and a sunken square stamped in the center of each. The metal is bright and slightly dull gray, with a few scuffs. A hole is visible in some, and they rest on a black ground. It is 0.25 inches long and 0.25 deep.

Tiny, geometric and faithful to the square.