12mm Fuchsia/Pearl Polished Rectangle Beads [20]

Style no.:

G1104

Beads per lot:

20

Cost per bead:

22.5 cents

Bead material:

Glass

Country of origin:

Czech Republic

Size/shape:

12mm (long) x 8mm (wide) x 4mm (thick) flat rectangles with hand-polished sides or "windows".

Colors/description:

Translucent fuchsia glass with an arrow-shaped swirl of white in each bead, plus a mottled brown coating around the edges.

Hole size:

1mm (estimated).

Defects:

All two-sided premium beads, such as these, are inspected before shipping, and the defective beads are eliminated.  However, some of these beads have one defect that I am not eliminating:  Picasso coating may have gotten into the holes; and if the beads are mostly translucent (as some of them are), you'll be able to see the picasso coating in the hole.  There are too many of those beads for me to eliminate them as defective.  The picture shows a few such beads.

How photographed:

At the window in natural daylight.

Comments:

I haven't carried these beads in a long time because the first batch had a lot of cracks.  Hopefully, this newer batch will be in better shape.  (You won't get any cracked beads; I inspect beads for defects before shipping.)  The picture shown is quite old, but accurate.