Welcome to EurekaEureka, where we (Debby & Joel Arem) offer you truly one of a kind luxury vintage beads and treasures, mainly from our trips all over the world during the 1970's and 1980's. We sell vintage products that in most cases cannot be replaced. Customer service is our #1 priority and we strive to make your buying experience interesting, secure and educational. We generally ship within 24-48 hours and insure all purchases over $100.

As a husband wife team we have been happily working together for almost 40 years - we opened our Etsy shop in January 2008 when we realized we had a surplus inventory of vintage beads, faceted gemstones and mineral specimens. We acquired these items while traveling the world during the 1970s and 1980s and were fortunate enough to visit such exotic places as Pakistan and Egypt back when it was safe to travel to such areas !
Joel is a leading authority on gems and minerals ( having written 7 books on the subject) so you can be sure that what you are buying is what has been represented!
★ Please visit www.joelarem.com to read more about Joel's background !

While traveling in Hong Kong and Taiwan, we visited bead factories and were able, not only to personally select each strand, but also have certain beads custom cut for us in unusual shapes. These beads helped set Debby apart from other bead artists - and still does.
You may see her work in our other Etsy shop: www.ForeverInStyle.etsy.com

Among our many excursions were visits to the jade markets in Hong Kong and Taiwan- Joel's expertise proved invaluable in ensuring that the jades we purchased were natural and un-treated. There is a proliferation of treated and misrepresented products in the current marketplace, and many items listed on eBay and Etsy are mislabeled, often being sold at 'bargain' prices which ARE, in fact, too good to be true! It has become especially important to shop with confidence from sellers who have real expertise and a commitment to accurate labeling.

Joel also spent many hours hand picking coral strands and matched pairs of carved beads from the largest coral producers in Taipei - angel skin coral from the South China Sea is not yet considered endangered but most likely will become so in the foreseeable future.

Extensive poaching lead to an international (CITES) ban on elephant ivory in the late 1970s . Abundant ivory is harvested legally from the many elephants that die naturally in Africa every year. Although trade in legally collected ivory is not prohibited , customs officials have made routine shipments extremely difficult. Consequently we have stopped shipping ivory beads and carvings outside the U.S.

Although it is not yet illegal to sell in the USA ivory that was harvested before the CITES ban, and we have a large stock of ivory beads in various sizes and shapes, ETSY will not allow sellers to list ivory items in their shops.
★ For more information on this subject of ivory and availability please communicate with us via convos or email us at threerng [!at] verizon.net or debbyaremdesigns [!at] gmail.com ★

Our unique inventory contains a larger variety of vintage products than you will find almost anywhere else, and includes a huge assortment of semiprecious stone, metal, wood, shell, bone, coral, ivory, cloisonne, tensha , porcelain and glass beads. We also have antique Chinese porcelain shards from the Ming (1368 -1644) and Ch'ing (or Qing) Dynasty (1644-1911), as well as genuine antique pieces of Chinese silver from this same period.
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► If you don't see something while browsing our many listings, feel free to contact us. It literally is just not possible to list everything we have in inventory - especially when it comes to faceted gemstones.
◀ You can send us a convo or email us at debbyaremdesigns [!at] gmail.com

Thanks so much for stopping by !
Debby and Joel Arem