8mm Baby Blue Picasso 3-Cut Round Beads [25]

Style:  G1925
 
Beads per lot:  25

Cost per bead:  16.8 cents

Bead material:  Glass

Country of origin:  Czech Republic

Size/shape:  8mm round with 3 facets cut around the middle.

Colors/description:  Opaque baby blue beads (with a slight seam in the middle which is a slightly darker shade of blue ) with a grayish-brown mottled "picasso" coating on the round portions (I think there's a little green in the coating).
 
Hole size:  1mm (estimated).

Defects:  These are fire-polished beads (i.e., the facets were made shiny by heating the surface until it turned molten).  Fire-polished beads always have some imperfect facets.  In this case, the vast majority of beads have one facet which is not perfectly flat and sometimes a little dull.  Because they were so expensive, and because they are so attractive (if you don't examine the facets closely), I haven't lowered the price.  You'll have to hope that your customers are not perfectionists.

How photographed:  At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:  These beads are really gorgeous.  It's just too bad that most beads have an imperfect facet.  You won't notice it unless you look for it.
 
Date first posted:  February 13, 2011
 
Supplier:  E
 
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