These beads are a very interesting. They are slimmer at one end than the other, but one side is flat and the other is rounded. If you followed vintage Czech beads, you know that this pattern came in seemingly endless shapes. This is one of those shapes. These beads were made in molds in Czechoslovakia in the 1990s. These beads are 16 mm long and 6 mm wide. There are 25 beads on the strand.