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Available light, with dreadful reflections. The center beads are transparent purple (Czech). The leftmost bead has a core of MOP gray, cased in clear, and then carefully raked on top of the casing so that the raked pattern "floats" above the opaque core. Well it was a nice concept, but of course I dug in a bit too deep in a couple of places and disturbed the MOP -- which really shows. Note the sparkles in the raked pattern in the 2nd bead on the right. Blue avventurina.