Dear Diana and Vicky,,

That is a good suggestion. I've noticed another on eBay this week.  With the 
Hugenot connection to lace  I tend to forget about the minority Catholics in 
the area.

With best wishes

Louise

> On 1 Jul 2016, at 15:09, Diana Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I wonder if the porthole beads your referring to are rosary beads. Some can 
> be made from bone, others from wood, and have probably been reused from 
> broken rosary's. 
> 
> Perhaps Brian has pictures in his research, if not I can send some to him.
> 
> Diana 
> 
> 
> Sent from Diana's iPad
> 
> 'Very little is needed to make a happy life.'
> 
>> On 1 Jul 2016, at 14:37, Vickie <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 18:37:44 +0100
>> From: Louise <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [lace] Re bead illustrations.
>> 
>> ........... but there were a couple of oddities one a coarse ceramic and
>> another organic with odd porthole decoration. I don't know if it is carved
>> wood or seed of some sort.
>> 
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> I have several of the same "porthole" type bead spangles in my antique
>> bobbin collection and would love to hear about what they are/history.  
>> Looking
>> forward to learning from the wealth of information found here as always.
>> 
>> Thanks you to Louise for taking the time to post pictures of her spangles
>> for us to see.
>> 
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