7x8mm Opaque Green Mottled Faceted Rosebud Beads [25]

Style:  F532
 
Beads per lot:  25

Cost per bead:  16

Bead material:  Glass

Country of origin:  Czech Republic

Size/shape:  7mm (long) x 8mm (wide) beads molded in a rosebud shape, with facets around the middle.

Colors/description:  White glass with a mottled green coating.  Actually, it appears that there are two coatings:  a grayish-bluish-green coating covered by a lightly applied light-golden-brown picasso coating.  The picasso coating looks more olive-green than brown because it mixes with the green coating.  Neither coating is synthetic.
 
Hole size:  1mm (estimated).

Defects:  I haven't noticed any significant defects.  However, fire-polished beads always have some imperfect facets.  But in a bead with a complex shape and mottled colors like this one, you won't notice any imperfections in the facets.

How photographed:  At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:  The wholesale price of these beads must have gone up.  When I apply my standard markup formula, the price comes out higher.  That's unfortunate.  However, the increase per bead is less than a cent.
 
Date first posted:  March 3, 2011
 
Supplier:  E
 
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