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Style no.:

G1677

Bead material:

Glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

10.5mm to 11mm tablets or puffy coins (thick coins with rounded edges and sides).  They are 6mm to 6.5mm thick, so they are not thin beads.

Colors/description:

Opaque chartreuse with a green/brown/gray picasso coating.  There is a great deal of variety in the appearance of the coating from one bead to the next.

Hole size:

1mm (estimated).

Defects:

Some of these beads have cracks, but I'm not able to determine how many because of the picasso coating (it appears to be less than 20%).  It's an old trick of the Czech manufacturers to put a coating on cracked beads.  That's fine as long as the beads are not actually breaking apart, and these beads are not coming apart.  Since the cracks aren't apparent to the naked eye, and since the beads aren't coming apart, I haven't discounted the price.  Also, not all the beads have a perfectly smooth surface, but the surface anomalies are minor.  In addition, not all the beads are perfectly round, but they are close enough.  I eliminate any bead which is noticeably malformed.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

I am calling the underlying bead "chartreuse" because it looks greenish to me, but it is close to being yellow.

As noted above, the beads are not perfectly consistent in size from one to the next, but they are close enough that they'll look uniform in your designs.

Be sure to read about the defects (above).  I don't think the defects are serious.  I examine all Premium beads before shipping, and I'll cull the beads with noticeable defects.  If any seriously defective beads get through, you should contact me.