Hi Frederick,
your impressions are very interesting. But I have to specify some points: It is me who I improved the colors with the computer to reveal them better because the bead is rather mat altogether and not very clear. I will send back the pic without improvement. This bead is very difficult to photograph! The strip on the top is not teal blue but mat green like in the early beads: it goes into the hole like all the other colors: red and clear (perhaps a little yellow) strips when I look at it with the stereomicroscope.
On this other pic, you can see the green strip in the hole, but more profoundly in the hole, I can see the different stripes. It's very interesting: I have also seen with a magnifying glass and a lamp that the green color is translucent profoundly into the hole. the white/yellow glass is more worn out than the red strips. the other strips are green and it is a strip at the equator which is, at the end, not exactly in front of the other side.
I don't know if my english is very clear!!!
best regards