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Shopping Cart4mm Plum Purple AB Cut-Crystal Bicone Beads [100]
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| Style no.: |
C055 |
| Beads per lot: |
100 |
| Cost per bead: |
3 cents |
| Bead material: |
Glass |
| Country of origin: |
China |
| Size/shape: |
4mm (long) x 4.5mm (wide) cut-crystal bicones. Cut-crystal bicones have six sides rather than the four sides that ordinary bicones have. |
| Colors/description: |
Translucent plum purple glass with an AB (aurora borealis) coating on part of each bead. (Czech beads have AB coatings that have a lot of silver in them; Chinese AB coatings are somewhat similar to Czech "iris" coatings.) |
| Hole size: |
1mm (estimated). |
| Defects: |
Chinese crystal bicones sometimes have chips around the holes. Also, it appears that the holes are actually drilled rather than being part of the mold; I say this because sometimes the holes are slightly off-center (but only slightly). |
| How photographed: |
Under two daylight-balanced lamps. |
| Comments: |
To the naked eye, Chinese bicones appear as perfect as Preciosa or Swarovski bicones, although I don't believe they actually are. Happily, they are much cheaper than those more-expensive beads. I consider them to be an adequate and economical substitute for Czech crystal bicones, so I may eventually switch over to the Chinese bicones entirely (unless my customers object). (It bears noting that 4mm Chinese crystal bicones are slightly larger than Czech bicones. Czech bicones are about .5 mm smaller in both dimensions.) This plum purple is different from the plum purples that I see in Czech beads, but I couldn't say exactly how. It looks a little more brown than plum purple usually does. Unfortunately, the AB coating doesn't show very well in the pictures. |
| Date first posted: |
November 19, 2015 |
| Supplier: | Y |
| Caleb's notes: |
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