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Shopping Cart19mm Turquoise Picasso Luster Oval Beads [3]
![19mm Turquoise Picasso Luster Oval Beads [3]](http://www.purebeads.com/catalogue/image/cache/data/G2100/G2169t-525x400.jpg "19mm Turquoise Picasso Luster Oval Beads [3]") Click to enlarge |
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| Style: |
G2169 |
| Beads per lot: |
3 |
| Cost per bead: |
$1.00 |
| Bead material: |
Glass (see Comments below) |
| Country of origin: |
Czech Republic |
| Size/shape: |
19mm (long) x 15mm (wide) ovals (i.e., football-shaped beads). Many beads are 18.5mm. |
| Colors/description: |
Greenish turquoise (i.e., opaque teal or greenish aqua) with a mottled bluish-black picasso coating and a light bronxy luster coating over that). |
| Hole size: |
1mm (estimated). |
| Defects: |
None that I have seen so far. Premium beads are inspected before shipping. |
| How photographed: |
At the window in natural daylight. |
| Comments: |
These are gorgeous beads. First, I should say that they look like they may be ceramic instead of glass; but since I bought them from a supplier that doesn't sell ceramic beads, I have to assume they are glass. The turquoise color is very rich, and the picasso coating -- being blue-black as it is instead of brown -- is especially lovely. Also, I haven't found (so far) even a single bead with a defect. The supplier's picture actually showed something different: It showed a turquoise bead with bronze mottling on it. But this blue-black mottling is much lovelier, in my opinion. My camera made the beads look like a blue turquoise instead of a green turquoise, so I had to make adjustments in my photo-editing program. The adjustments to the color may not be precisely right, but I think I came very close. The supplier describes these beads as 20mm x 16mm, but they are actually 18.5mm to 19mm x 15mm. I don't know why there's a discrepancy. These beads are a departure for me, since I never buy such expensive beads. They may be the most expensive beads I have ever purchased, even more expensive than the 18mm patterned polished rectangles that I have carried for a while. Clearly, they are focal beads, and you probably don't need more than five or seven of them in one necklace (unless you are making very high-end jewelry, in which case a full necklace of them would be glorious). Because of the high price, I am taking a smaller markup on these beads than I usually take. |
| Date first posted: |
February 23, 2014 |
| Supplier: | E |
| Caleb's notes: |
I should have purchased more! |
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