Rare Old Elbow Millefiori Venetian Glass Bead African trade SB-30247

Beautiful OLD very rare ELBOW Millefiore Venetian glass trade bead (Picard, Volume VI, p.36, bead 597).

The bead is in excellent condition .

The size of the bead is 40 X 10 mm.

Venetian Millefiori mosaic glass trade beads used in the African trade early 1900's.