I forgot to mention the MORETTI glass that the artist told me that she used...I wonder if that is significant...and her love of Aboriginal designs...I also wondered if the third pen that I bought...the one made out of MAGHOGANY was GILL's and not my sister's...I have a feeling that it is...and the artist told me that the 'gold' was in fact a type of gold...within those beads...an alloy of gold...so my network was entirely correct then...that is what we are looking at and not bronze.