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Cost per bead:

8 cents

Bead material:

Glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

15mm (from end to end) crescent-shaped beads, with the hole through the center.

Colors/description:

Translucent bright ruby red.

Hole size:

1mm (estimated).

Defects:

The beads are not perfectly shaped – i.e., there are slight variations in shape from one bead to the next.  This seems to be true of all angel-wing beads.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

My camera does a very poor of photographing reds.  In order to get this picture to look right, I had to do some heavy-duty processing, which is why there is a heavy red reflection on the white background.