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Here is a group of pale pearly beads. In the back, a plain white MOP teardrop; an alabastro or opalino pink bead with raked goldstone decoration (notice how the copper in the goldstone reacted with the pink glass and made a delicate green tracery which I actually like); and a white MOP barrel bead with raked goldstone, very subtle and tasty. In the front, two white MOP beads encased in what I think was alexandrite Czech glass, and one pink alabastro or opalino teardrop with a goldstone core which no one will ever notice. As with the other beads, the alexandrite might really be tourmaline pink.