One of my best trade bead “scores” was made at the Cascade Mountainmen’s Annual Muzzle Loading Arms and Pioneer Craft Show in Monroe, WA.  I spotted a couple of young men with a table of odds and ends for sale; walking sticks, badges, old steel knives, old postcards, old spurs and harnesses,  some old costume jewelry and one strand of big dirty old striped beads.  I knew immediately what they were despite the dirt!  And they were so cheap!!  I bought them and crowed all the way home…CHEVRONS.  It was quite a job to clean them up too.

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