6mm Reddish-Bronze Bicone Beads [50]

Cost per bead:

6 cents

Bead material:

Glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

6mm bicones (a bicone is two pyramids joined at the base with the hole through the center).

Colors/description:

Glass beads (probably clear) with an opaque reddish-bronze surface, which is probably fired onto the bead.  I don't know if there is actually any bronze in the surface.

Hole size:

1mm (estimated).

Defects:

The beads appear to be in good shape.  Some beads have some grayish metallic spots on them, but that seems to be part of the "look".

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

I don't know why I didn't get these beads sooner; they are really striking.