And now for something completely different

Two examples of Zulu bead work.
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Ahh, so they are so cool! wonderful work.very intricate. expensive?.
put your books on display man!.

Les around 90GBP, they really are unique. I was amazed he could come up with something so good. They are around 300mm tall so quite striking.
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A bit tacky!!

And of course each is a one off, can see the
skill that went into them! all they need is a
bit of a patina, and time as we know will
sort that.. cheers mate!.

ctsg, consider all those individual beads.
arranged to make immediately recognizable
figure's. its called folk art..

Hi Springbok
I like them , a lot of time and effort has gone into making those two   Correct , they are certainly different   
I can see Mitford's book just to the right of the shield , also one from DP&G but cant see the Title   
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Hi springy.

Hells bells, they must have taken ages to make, go on, tell me,   do they have a label on the bottom that has a little dragon on it saying 'made in wales',   LOL!!  

Cheers mate.   

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA , Like it Martin !      
90th   

Sorry Martin no shades on Men of Harlech there. Just pure Zulu.
Nice to see you back my friend.

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Les
In response to your plea, this is my study Zulu wall.
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Thanks Frank.   

Been having computer problems mate, that's why I was awal for a few weeks.

These darn things drive you potty trying to figure out what is wrong with them, and if you get an 'expert' to fix them they will charge you an arm and a leg, so with the bit of knowledge I have about these contraptions, I set about fixing the thing myself, a bit of trial and error, but I got there in the end. Mrs Shifter wasn't too pleased with all the bits and pieces cluttering up the fold away table, I had little screws in containers, the screen, keyboard, hard drive, motherboard, and all sorts of other bits and bobs on the fold up table, the look on her face was a picture, ha ha. It was like putting together a large airfix kit when I put the thing back together again, but I did it, and it works fine now.

The bead work on those two figures must have taken ages to do, they are a credit to the zulu people.

Cheers mate.   

Nice ' man cave ' Springbok!

If my 'man cave' (or junk room as Mrs Shifter calls it), was as organised as Frank's I would know where to find things, however, I have the bad habit of putting things here and there then forgetting where they are, jeez, I am still looking for an old railway sign I put in there back in 1966 (the year England won the world cup), ummm, I wonder if Mrs Shifter has been on the prowl