2x6mm Dark Bronze Rondelle Glass Beads [100] (see Comments)

Cost per bead:

4 cents

Bead material:

Glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

2.5mm x 6mm rondelles (disks with the hole through the center).

Colors/description:

Glass beads with a dark-bronze-colored coating; I believe the coating is metallic, but I don't know if it is actual bronze.

Hole size:

1mm (estimated).

Defects:

I haven't noticed any defects, although an occasional bead may be malformed.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

When I restocked these beads in April, 2013, I bought them in a large quantity to get a good price.  I increased the lot size from 50 to 100, and I lowered the price-per-bead by one-third.

IMPORTANT:  The new beads are a deeper, richer brown than the beads pictured, which looked a little coppery.  I would even say that the new beads look slightly less metallic than the old beads, more like lustrous opaque brown beads.  They still look metallic, but just a little less so.

Please note that the little white dots on the edges of the beads in the picture are light reflections; I don't know why that happened.