4x9mm Bluish-Turquoise Rice Beads [100]

Beads per lot:

100

Cost per bead:

3.6 cents

Bead material:

Glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

4mm (wide) x 9mm (long) rice-shaped with the hole through the width.

Colors/description:

Opaque bluish turquoise (opaque aqua).

Hole size:

1mm (estimated).

Defects:

The beads appear to be in good shape.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

This is a shape I haven't gotten before.  Grains of rice are not narrow in the center, as these beads are, but the narrowness causes them to lie diagonally against each other.