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Shopping Cart4mm Topaz Iris Cut-Crystal Bicone Beads [100]
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| Style no.: |
C063 |
| 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 topaz with a multicolored iris coating (the Chinese sellers call the coating AB, but it looks more like a Czech iris coating, so I am calling it that). |
| Hole size: |
1mm (estimated). |
| Defects: |
Chinese crystal bicones sometimes have chips around the holes, and sometimes around the facets (although these look pretty good). 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 color is unusual. It is a little more orange than the Czech version of the topaz color, and the iris coating combined with the color makes the beads like similar to celsian beads (meaning, golden). I really, really like these beads. |
| Date first posted: |
December 4, 2015 |
| Supplier: | Y |
| Caleb's notes: |
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