Czechoslovakian beads, were thrown from 1918 (the establishment of Czechoslovakia) probably into the early 1970s. The very first beads, before 1918 were probably Bohemian or Venetian.

Aja Raden's new book, Stoned, is about jewelry, but on the first page she lays out a bold ... starting with the glass beads a Dutchman used to buy Manhattan from the Lenape Indians in 1626.

Christopher Columbus may have sailed the ocean blue in 1492, but some tiny blue beads beat him to it, reaching North America a few decades sooner, to become possibly the earliest European-made ...

a story appeared in the New Orleans Item that includes what may be the first specific mention of beads. That Mardi Gras promised to attract “the largest crowd New Orleans has entertained in ten ...

Christopher Columbus may have sailed the ocean blue in 1492, but some tiny blue beads beat him to it, reaching North America a few decades sooner, to become possibly the earliest European-made ...