I haven't noticed any defects, but note that fire-polished beads usually
have some imperfect facets.
How photographed:
At the window in natural daylight.
Comments:
The supplier calls these beads "Colorado" brown, so I just picked up that
name. I'm not sure how Colorado brown is different from, say, dark
topaz, but it seems like a nice color to me. Simply for the sake of
comparison, here is the supplier's picture: