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Item no.:

G1354

Bead material:

glass

Country of origin:

India

Size/shape:

Rondels with slightly large holes (about 1.5mm, though some of them are just 1mm); they are 3mm to 4mm thick and 6mm to 7mm wide.

Colors/description:

Opaque white with a luster coating (the coating is hard to see in the picture).

Defects:

5% to 10% of the beads are malformed, so I dropped the price from $2.00 to $1.80.  These are Indian beads, so they are not uniform from one to the next.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

These are Indian beads and are definitely on the rustic side.  They are not the same shape from one bead to the next.  I haven't done much jewelry-designing in recent years, but it seems to me that they should be used only in informal jewelry.  For some reason, this particular color has a higher percentage of defects than the other colors.