Florida or Fashion Institute? If it's Fashion Institute of Technology, you're fairly close to Corning and they may could help direct you in your research.
http://www.beadmuseum.com
Floor Kaspers is a wonderful resource on European mass produced beads. I'd tap her knowledge if I could. It will certainly help guide you in the direction you need to go in. It is very possible, if not highly probable, she has a sample card in her studio of those exact beads.