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I feel the reason why they did not use the irregular beads,was that<BR>
drilling the holes were too hard. I have picture of Babaloynian<BR>
princess' headdress that does seem to have some chip type beads in it.<BR>
To me, one of the great tech jumps of history was when someone figured<BR>
out how to take sand or grit and a reed and how to drill a hole in a<BR>
hard stone bead. One of the interesting things about period beads, is<BR>
that the smaller were more valuable. It took more time, more skill and<BR>
wasted more of the base material to cut small beads. I've been told that<BR>
almost 80% of the amber is wasted in turning out an amber bead.<BR>
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Now how did the cat set the computer to do this italic script. I don't<BR>
even know how to do it, or for that matter undo it.<BR>
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Cairenn<BR>
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