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Item no.:

G685

Bead material:

glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

18mm leaf-shaped.  Only one side of the bead has veins; the opposite side isn't for show.  The AB coating isn't always on the side with the veins; sometimes it is on the underside.

Colors/description:

olive green with an AB coating on one side

Defects:

I haven't noticed any defects.

Comments:

I almost returned these beads when I discovered that the underside of the beads isn't meant to be shown.  That means that you need to design your jewelry pieces so that the top of the bead is always showing.  The underside of the beads has a bump in the glass where the hole is, and it doesn't look very good.  The underside of the beads doesn't look too bad when the AB coating is on the top; but the underside doesn't look very good when the AB coating is on that side.  Is all this confusing?