Featured Beads, glass or agate?

Hoicking out stuff I’ve had for a long time. These beads seem to have some characteristics of agate as there seems to be some bits of moss embedded and colour striations but they could easily be glass. Any info/opinions please? Thank you.

 

It looks like a dyed agate.

 

Thanks. Is there a test for the dye please evelyb? Lemon juice or vinegar or something? I’m just concerned it might come off while you are wearing it.

 

Don't remember anyone ever saying hoicking here in the US that I can remember

 

SIS, do you use the term Bishy Barney Bee in the US?
Hoicking is pretty normal for Norfolk term here in U.K. we do it with digging out plants or trees and describing extracting something from a pile.

 

Sounds like a compound of hoisting & hiking, either of which can be used with up.

 

I've never known this to be a problem, but you could just soak it in water for a while & see if you can then wipe anything off.

 

Not that I've ever known. What, pray tell, is Bishy Barney Bee?

I will say that I have heard quite a lot of terms, unused in the US, from my very dear friend in Scotland and my daughter's partner who is from Manchester.

 

I hoick stuff out of my pond all the time.

 

My cats hoick stuff up right where I'll step on it when I get out of bed.

 

Ah yes, Bare toes and a furball. That's cats honking here.

 

Well in that usage we do have "hock"

 

A ladybird

 

You mean a ladybug.

 

In the Rhyme do you say Ladybug, Ladybug, fly away home?

 

We do.

 

I've never seen dye come off agates. Cheap tat yes, but not the agates. You could try vinegar and see what it does, or if you're living dangerously acetone. That stuff eats superglue after all.

We huck stuff out, at least on the East Coast. I've never hoicked anything to my knowledge. Chucked it out, tossed it, bums-rushed it yes, but not hoicked.