7mm Lavender Opalescent Luster Flower Button Beads [50]

Cost per bead:

7 cents

Bead material:

Glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

7mm-wide bell-shaped flowers with the hole running sideways through the tapered back of the flower.  In other words, these flowers are button-shaped with a flower for the face.  They are 5mm from front to back.

Colors/description:

Cloudy grayish lavender with a luster coating.

Hole size:

1mm (estimated).

Defects:

The beads appear to be in good shape, although an occasional bead is missing a petal (I'm not sure what percentage, but it seems to be small).  The missing petals didn't break off.  Rather, it appears that the mold was defective.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

I originally photographed these beads loose on a plate, so that some of them were upside down showing the backs of the beads.  But the picture was too confusing because the beads were lying every which way.  So I re-took the photo with the beads strung on a hank.

The picture makes the beads look a little too grayish.  They are a little more colorful than they look in the picture.