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Shopping Cart4mm Milky Spring Green Cut-Crystal Bicone Beads [100]
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| Style no.: |
C056 |
| Beads per lot: |
100 |
| Cost per bead: |
3 cents |
| Bead material: |
Glass |
| Country of origin: |
China |
| Size/shape: |
4mm (long) x 4.5mm (wide) cut-crystal bicones. Cut-crystal bicones have six sides rather than the four sides that ordinary bicones have. |
| Colors/description: |
Milky spring green -- some beads are darker and/or lighter than others. |
| Hole size: |
1mm (estimated). |
| Defects: |
Bicones should be symmetrical from one end to the other, but with Chinese bicones, some are shorter on one end. Also, some beads may have chips around the holes, and an occasional bead may be lacking facets at one end. However, Chinese bicones are one-third the cost of Czech bicones, so it is worth dealing with more defects. |
| How photographed: |
Under two daylight-balanced lamps. |
| Comments: |
To the naked eye, Chinese bicones appear as perfect as Preciosa or Swarovski bicones, although I don't believe they actually are. Happily, they are much cheaper than those more-expensive beads. I consider them to be an adequate and economical substitute for Czech crystal bicones, so I may eventually switch over to the Chinese bicones entirely (unless my customers object). (It bears noting that 4mm Chinese crystal bicones are slightly larger than Czech bicones. Czech bicones are about .5 mm smaller in both dimensions.) These are very pretty beads. I really like them. Unfortunately, my picture doesn't show the details of the individual beads very well. |
| Date first posted: |
November 20, 2015 |
| Supplier: | Y |
| Caleb's notes: |
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