Made in the Gablonz region of old Czechoslovakia, beaded Christmas ornaments such as these have been made for over 100 years and catalogues in the Museum of Jablonec have images of spiders, planes, cars, animals, pendants, lamps and insects, all made from antique mercury glass beads.

Vintage Czech glass bead Christmas tree ornament. From the 60's but made with older blown glass beads including end of day shapes. Unusual design and unusual blown glass beads

3.25 inches approx