6mm Brown Tiger Bicone Beads [50]

Beads per lot:

50

Cost per bead:

5.2 cents

Bead material:

Glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

6mm bicones (a bicone is shaped like two pyramids joined at the base, with the hole through the middle).

Colors/description:

A mixture of satiny opaque brown and black.  The black is in the center and the brown is on the surface.  This is a common Czech color which is called either "brown tiger" or "tiger eye".

Hole size:

1mm (estimated).

Defects:

The beads appear to be in good shape, but may not be a full 6mm long; the center of these beads is black and on some beads the black has risen to the surface.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

The "tiger" colors have been a staple of Czech beads for years.