Pointed Back Glass Chaton Facetted Square Blue Unfoiled 8mm

Unusual and beautiful vintage finds! These vintage royal blue 8mm glass chatons have an opaque surface with a poined back to set. They can be inverted, i.e., using the front of the stone to stick on a flat surface such as an ear pad to make a stud earring or used to embellished a brass blank or filigree. Chatons are not beads, and do not have holes.

Limited supplies.

Use an epoxy glue e.g., Araldite if adhering to another material.

size: 8mm
shape: square

origin: Czechoslovakia

date: Circa 1960s

Following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War 1, the independent country of Czechoslovakia was created in 1918, combining two distinct cultural groups, the Czechs and Slovaks. They became independent countries in 1993.