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Item no.:

G1197

Bead material:

glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

12mm-long ovals with 3 flat sides, making the beads look triangular when looked at from the hole end.

Colors/description:

Clear glass with an inner core of satiny blue; there is a black spiral stripe surrounding the blue core.

Defects:

The beads appear to be in good shape.  The picture above reveals, however, that they are not all exactly the same size.  My calipers were misplaced during my move, and I can't tell you what the lengths are for the smallest and largest beads.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

(1) These are hand-made lampwork beads.  (2) Please note that the blue version of these beads looks smaller than the white and pink versions, probably because the blue is so much darker. (3) When I buy lampwork beads, I start off with a smallish lot.  In this case I ordered 40, but they only had 30, so I won't be able to restock these beads.