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![6mm Steel Gray Round Glass Pearls [74-75]](http://www.purebeads.com/catalogue/image/cache/data/G1900/G1941at-525x400.jpg "6mm Steel Gray Round Glass Pearls [74-75]") Click to enlarge |
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| Style: | G1941 |
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Beads per lot: |
74 or 75 |
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Cost per bead: |
5 cents |
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Bead material: |
Glass |
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Country of origin: |
Czech Republic |
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Size/shape: |
6mm round (spherical). |
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Colors/description: |
Glass beads, probably milky white but possibly clear, with a lustrous bluish-gray synthetic coating. When held up to the light, the beads are slightly translucent. |
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Hole size: |
1mm (estimated). |
| Defects: |
The coating on Czech pearls is fairly thin, and I don't know how durable it is. Also, inevitably a few pearls will be missing some coating around one of the holes (a common defect with Czech coated beads). A few pearls may also have some anomalies in the coating, such as bumps, indentations or a bit of dirt. |
| How photographed: | At the window in natural daylight. |
| Comments: |
IMPORTANT: These beads were a lovely bluish-gray when I bought them, but all the blue has faded out of them, and now they look steel gray. Although I had been selling pearls for over a decade, I didn't figure out until 2013 that any synthetically coated bead which has blue in it will fade over time, so I no longer buy those colors. (The colors affected are blue, bluish gray, aqua and purple -- and green beads may turn to olive green over time.) As steel-gray beads, these beads work perfectly well; but they were not steel gray when I got them. I redid the picture in September, 2014, so it is accurate (actually, I think the actual beads look a bit better than they appear in the picture). Most strands have 75 beads, but some have 74 beads. |
| Date first posted: |
April 18, 2011 |
| Supplier: |
E |
| Caleb's notes: |
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