Swarovski Bead Numbers And Descriptions

Submitted by:  ~Belle

• Cut numbers of some of the rarer, vintage Swarovski beads and a description.

• These are the more difficult-to-find vintage ones.
  
  3000 – rounded top, flat silvered bottom, strung through the middle as endcap
  3015 – thin rivoli bead, strung through center, more cuts & thinner than 5102
  3020 – 2-hole button with rim
  3021 – 2-hole button with rim, cut back
  3219 – 2-hole oval button
  3320 – 2-hole button with decoration
  3700 – margarita with center hole
  3701 – margarita with more petals with center hole
  5003 – disco ball with many, many facets
  5004 – roundish with bicone ends, square facets around center
  5007 – diamond cuts, diagonal look round (old #371)
  5023 – molded facets in a band around the center
  5030 – beehive
  5033 – melon
  5233 – elongated or oval melon
  5090 – uncut plain round, clear or matte finish
  5290 – elongated bullet oval, usually found in matte finish
  5100 – aspirin shape (old #335)
  5101 – fat aspirin shape with faceted sides
  5102 – rivoli aspirin shape, thicker and fewer cuts than 3015
  5104 – flat, thin rectangular cut, wider than long
  5105 – octagon, top drill across short side, longer than wide
  5106 – octagon, top drill across long side, wider than long
  5107 – pagoda potato-chip beads, alternate lefts and rights for overlap
  5110 – flower with top drill
  5111 – flower with center drill
  5121 – elongated bicone
  5200 – oval cut, sometimes called olive (old #36)
  5205 – very long bicone tube
  5204 – rectangular cut bead
  5206 – long oval with diagonal cuts
  5207 – long oval with many cuts
  5215 – Saturn bead with swirled ends and faceted center
  5230 – tube faceted
  5300 – lumpy bicone, 6-sided cuts around rounded center (old #39)
  5302 – tube faceted center, bicone ends
  5304 – bicone with center row of diamond facets
  5305 – spacer bicone, comes in 5mm or 6mm (old #159)
  5307 – short bicone (old #42)
  5309 – lumpy bicone, bicone-ish ends, with facets around the middle (old #39)
  5400 – lampshade
  5401 – one rounded end, one short bicone end, short bullet
  5500 – shorter teardrop
  5505 – long teardrop
  5563 – long teardrop
  6200 – rivoli pendant with one hole at top (old #21)

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Here are some of the contemporary ones. Some of these have been around a long time, but since they are fairly common to find today, I did not include them in the rare listing.

#5000 - round
#5020 - helix (new)
#5025 - fancy cut round
#5040 - doughnut or short round
#5203 - polygon
#5301 - bicone
#5308 - straight-sided spacer, faceted edge
#5310 - simplicity cut (new)
#5600 - diagonal cube
#5601 - cube
#5744 - new flower
#5820 - rhinestone rondelle
#5830 - squaredelle
#6301 - top-drilled drop bicone