What is this bead material?
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Posted by: Rosanna Post Reply
03/11/2019, 12:14:48

Just purchased a strand of faux coral to satisfy my curiosity. The seller thought the tubes were painted metal.

However when I fractured one, the material looks more like some sort of soft stone or maybe grey coral? It broke very easily and also abrades very easily. Or, is it a man-made material?

The beads vary in size and shape, and the holes also vary.

The unknown faux coral bead from the Beck collection that I posted recently, looks like the same type of bead.

I'm sure someone in the global BCN community recognizes it!

RFFauxCoralPainted.jpg (47.5 KB)  RFFauxCoralEnds.jpg (26.7 KB)  


Modified by Rosanna at Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 12:16:52

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