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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 451255, member: 5833&quot;]Let&#039;s see if I can get what I see into words.</p><p><br /></p><p>The beads are not uniformly shaped, which you would expect if they had all been made in a mold; the irregularity takes your thoughts away from glass, toward stone.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, despite all the variability &amp; somewhat crude look, they all appear to be very rounded at the edges where one flat side meets another.&nbsp; Hand faceted stones would be much sharper, would have an angle where yours have a curve.&nbsp; Can&#039;t imagine hand cut beads that do not otherwise show the highest level of workmanship having been finished so well on this one aspect.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is really hard to convey, but there is also something &#039;off&#039; about the colors; primarily the red is a blue red, not the yellow red of cornelian &amp; red jasper.&nbsp; This is a less convincing argument for glass than all those rounded edges, but adds to my impression that that&#039;s what they are.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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