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Cost per bead:

9.6 cents

Bead material:

Glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

11mm flat ovals with the hole through the flat dimension at one end.

Colors/description:

Clear glass with horizontal swirls of brown and white.

Hole size:

1mm (estimated).

Defects:

My close-up photo of these beads revealed some little bubbles in the glass, some nicks, and some little scratches, but 90% of the defects are too small to notice with the naked eye.  Almost all glass beads have such small defects.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

I absolutely adore the brown porphyr color (porphyr is a term I picked up from another supplier; it means a swirl of color with white in clear glass).  For contrast, here is the supplier's picture: