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color=#000000><STRONG>Folks</STRONG>:</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNoSpacing style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" color=#000000>Need some
help to find out what these might be worth or someone who can help place a value
on these trade beads owned by one of our directors. The note that came with them
reads:</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNoSpacing style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" color=#000000>“2 strings of
glass trade beads blue and white with two tubular beads made of bone. The blue
and white beads called ‘crow’ or ‘china’ beads were used across the plains area
of N. America from the late 18<SUP>th</SUP> Century to the late 19<SUP>th</SUP>
Century. These examples probably date from the second half of the
19<SUP>th</SUP> Century, 1850-1900. They have almost certainly been
restrung.”</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" color=#000000>Any ideas?
Please let me know.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNoSpacing style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" color=#000000><STRONG>Don
Hauka,</STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
color=#000000><STRONG>Communications/Creative
Director,</STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" color=#000000><STRONG>New
Pathways to Gold Society</STRONG></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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