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Buttons, Vintage and
Vintage Reproduction Beads

Prices are for whole strands only.  Quantity available will vary from bead to bead.  If you want more than one strand of a particular bead, please be sure to indicate that on your order.  

To place an order, call us at (828) 884-5920 or email us at orders@abetterbead.com with the words Place an Order in the subject line of your message.  In the text of the message please include the following information:

  • stock number (Listed in blue under the item just before the price.)

  • a description of the item(s) you wish to purchase

  • quantity of item you want to purchase

  • shipping address

  • the method you wish to use for payment.

  • Please DO NOT include credit card numbers in your e-mail.

Payment may be made in the following ways:

  • VISA or Master Card (processed over the phone)

  • US Postal Money Order

  • personal check

(Buttons and strands sorted by color below)

 

A Note on Color!

Colors will appear drastically different from computer to computer.  We take the most accurate pictures we can.  We reinforce our pictures with a description of the color in commonly used terms.  Further, when a particular bead appears different on our computer from the actual color of the bead, we note that for you with a *.  In such a case, we encourage you to rely more on the description of the color as it is written rather than the picture of the bead.

 

Vintage Beads
and Buttons
$1.25 per glass button, regardless of size or color. 
Quantity discounts available.

Dragonfly Buttons

These glass buttons are reproductions of Vintage Buttons.  They are available in four colors, cobalt blue on copper, brass, and pink or teal with an AB finish.

dragon-fly buttons

$1.15 each or 10 for $10

Triange Vintage Reproduction Beads

Vintage Reproduction Triangle Beads

All these triangle beads are already sold out.

German Made Vintage Reproduction
Leaf and Flower Beads

What are reproduction beads?  They are new beads made to look like old beads.  In some cases they are actually made on the same equipment as the old ones.  Sometimes, the glass is old, even antique, and it is made into new beads.  In the case of these German beads, they are new glass made to look like old beads from 30 to 70 years ago using similar techniques.

 

2396a - $8.50

German flower

 

2396b - $8.50

German flower

2396c - $8.50

German flower

2396d - $8.50

German flower

2396e - $8.50

German flower

2397a - $7.50

German leaf

2397b - $7.50

German leaf

2397c - $7.50

German leaf

2397d - $7.50

German leaf

2397e - $7.50

German leaf

2397f - $7.50

German leaf

2397g - $7.50

German leaf

2397h - $7.50

German leaf

Vintage Beads

How old is vintage?  The dictionary says vintage is, "of old, recognized, and enduring interest, importance and quality".  In the bead trade that means between 30 and 70 years. 

Anything from the 90's or later is just old.  Anything made earlier that WWII is considered antique even though Europeans don't count furniture as antique until it is 100 years old.  Everybody, Europeans included, pretty much agree that beads have a different standard.  For them 70 plus years old is antique

All the bead below are all from 30 to 70 years old.

Abbreviations

Aus - Austrian

Vcz - Czech

It - Italian

J - Japanese

WG - West German

New Vintage Beads, Bead Mixes and Button

Vintage Crackle Glass Button

1221 - $2.50

Vintage Blue Bead Mix

30+ Beads

1241 - $4.50

Vintage Orange Bead Mix - 57+ Beads

1239 - $5

 

 

Japanese Amber Drop

1222 - $5

WG Amber & Gray Oval Nugget

1293 - $4.50

Crackle FP Yellow

1248 - $7.50

 
 

 
 

Frosted Blue & Clear Bicone

1260 - $4

CZ Blue/Green

Nugget

3926 - $7.25

WG Mint Twist

(*Top picture is more accurate color.)

1306 - $6

WG Mauve Flat Square  - 12mm

1323 - $6.75

WG Mauve Flat Square - 8mm

1323 - $6.75

WG Red Flat

Square - 12mm

1323 - $6.75

WG Red Flat

Square - 8mm

1323 - $6.75

WG Faceted Olivine

Round - 8mm

1297 $7.50

WG Faceted Olivine

Round - 6mm

1257 - $4.25

WG Flat White

Nugget - Large

1304 - $6

WG Flat White

Nugget - Small

1304 - $6

   

   

Japanese White, Red & Green Round - 15mm

4587 - $6.75

AUS Black & White

Rounded Square

1125 - $7.50

   
 

 

 

WG Crackle Green

Nugget - 15mm

3946 - $8.75

WG Crackle Red

Nugget - 15mm

3946 - $8.75

Mottled Red

Round - 6mm

1271 - $4.50

 

 

CZ Blue Spotted

 Nugget - 14mm

 3926 - $7.25

WG Blue Marble

Round - 12mm

4604 - $6

WG Blue w Pink

Diamond

1287 - $8.75

 

4604 - WG Marble

Gold/Raspberry

12mm - $6

4604 - WG Marble

Gold/Purple

12mm - $6

4604 - WG Marble

Gold/Teal

12mm - $6

3946 - WG round

Mint Crackle

12mm - sold

3955 - German/US Zone w original tag

13" - Peach graduated strand w 10 to 16mm beads w 5mm round spacer beads - $30

sold

Lt Yellow Faceted Beads

4605 - WG Faceted

Light Yellow

12mm - $22.50

One (1) strand available in each size

4605 - WG Faceted

Light Yellow

10mm - $20

4594 - WG Diamond

Pink

14mm - $3.75

4584 - WG Diamond

Pink Opaque

15mm - $3.75

4583 - WG Diamond

Mauve Square

13mm - $4.50

4579 - WG Faceted

Pink

8mm - $8

4591 - WG Faceted

White & Caramel

9mm - $6

3952 - WG Faceted

Cocoa

4mm - $4

3947 - WG Faceted

Coral

10mm - $4.50

3954 - Vcz Faceted

Lt Sapphire AB

6mm - $5

3953 - WG twist

Lavender Opaque

10 x 13mm - $5.50

7830 - WG Diamond

Blue Faceted Crackle

10 x 16mm - $5.50

5726 - WG Faceted

Emerald AB

14mm - $9

7416 - WG Faceted

Grey Crackle

8.5mm - $12.50

3924 - Aus Disk

Bronze*

10mm - $6

5727 - WG Twist

Light Sapphire AB

9 x 12mm - $5.75

3927 - Japanese

Tube Coral

4 x 14mm - $4

3993 - Vcz Round

Pink Spotted

9mm - $6

3926 - Vcz Nugget

Orange Faceted

11 x 14mm - $7.25

3928 - Japanese

Turquoise Round

9mm - $4.25

3925 - Vcz

Pink Faceted*

6 x 9mm - $3.50

3929 - Japanese

Blue 3 Sided

13mm - $8.50

3951 - WG Bicone

Amber*

8mm - $6

1308 - Vcz

Tear Drop Blue Iris

6mm - $5

3949 - WG 2 hole

Black Flat Back

10mm - $2.50

3926 - Vcz Nugget

Turquoise Faceted

11 x 14mm - $7.25

WG82 - $3.75

Green Vintage Beads

Green Vintage Beads

GW02 - $5.00

WG83 - $6.00

WG85 - $6.00

WG84 - $3.00

WG105 - $4.00

GW25 -$5.25

specify light

or dark green

AUS7-$3.24

GW24 - $5.50

AUS8-ab - $6.00

WG17 - $3.50

WG149 - 46.50

WG22 - $4.50

WG81 - $4.50


WG84 - $3.25

WG55 - $5.00

VCZ3 - $2.00

WG80 - $5.00

WG108 - $6.50

WG35 - $4.00

 

WG151 - $8.00

 

VCZ7 - $4.50

 

WG87 - $4.50

WG107 - $6.00

specify light

or dark teal

Blue Vintage Beads