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Style no.:

G1623

Bead material:

Glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

17mm-long, 13mm-wide, nautilus-shaped beads.  The hole runs through the long dimension.

Colors/description:

Opaque silky medium-dark blue (please see my comments below).

Hole size:

1mm (estimated).

Defects:

I haven't noticed any significant defects.  If these beads have the fissures in the grooves which another of the nautilus beads have, they are very few.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

For some reason, my camera cannot capture blues and reds correctly.  In this case, the actual color is richer and has a hint of purple in it, like good cobalt blue does.  When I adjusted the above color to be the right hue, it changed the photo in ways that looked unnatural, so I am leaving the color as it is.  Also, my picture doesn't show the silkiness of the glass very well.  Altogether, I think the actual beads are much nicer than my picture indicates.