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Item no.:

G1153

Bead material:

glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

10mm flat round (coin-shaped) hand-polished beads

Colors/description:

Bluish turquoise (opaque aqua) with a brown picasso coating around the edges.  (Natural turquoise comes in a both a bluish and greenish hue.)

Defects:

Many of the "windows" on these beads have a film on them that has to be rubbed off.  As with the other polished beads, I am examining these beads individually and eliminating defective beads.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

The new batch is darker than the beads pictured.  The supplier charges more for these small 10mm polished beads than for the 12mm rectangles and ovals.  In fact, the supplier's price went up $5, so I have had to raise my price.  My markup on these beads is lower than the markup on the 12mm beads.