6mm Opaque Purple/Copper Luster Bicone Beads [50] (see Comments)

Cost per bead:

5.6 cents

Bead material:

Glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

6mm bicone-shaped (a bicone is the shape of two pyramids joined at the base).

Colors/description:

Glass beads (probably white) with an opaque purple coating and a copper-luster coating on top of that.  The coatings are not synthetic, and it should be durable.

Hole size:

1mm (estimated).

Defects:

The beads appear to be in good shape, although the picture revealed a few beads with black spots on them.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

Important:  The latest batch of these beads is a substantially darker and richer purple than the beads pictured.  I used to call these beads "lavender", but they are most definitely purple now.  I didn't make a new picture because I was busy at the time that I restocked them.  In my opinion, the new beads look substantially better than the beads pictured.