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Item no.:

G1033

Bead material:

glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

14mm squarish ovals with a slight twist

Colors/description:

opaque red with a black/gray/green picasso coating; the picasso coating is more blotchy than spotted

Defects:

An occasional bead (probably less than 5%) may be missing a significant amount of coating on one side; because of that, I reduced the price slightly.  Also, please note that the picasso coating is not fired onto the beads, so I don't know how durable it will be.  The inside of the bag seemed dusty, and that may have been some of the coating coming off (I'm just guessing).

Comments:

A customer asked me to get these beads, and I found it on one of my suppliers' sites.  The beads are quite expensive, though there's no apparent reason for them to cost so much.  This particular supplier doesn't price their beads very logically.  Despite the seemingly large size (14mm), the beads don't seem that large, undoubtedly because they are long and flat.