Featured Beads- Bone, coral or something else?

What do you think please?
Cold, hard and quite shiny. Weighty, similar to the weight of glass.
Each bead is c5mm
Thankyou for your thoughts

 

Looks like some kind of glass trade bead. How are they strung?

 

Didn’t think of glass,I assumed organic with the marks on them. I will go and study for bubbles!
They are on plain white/ivory cord with no clasp.

 

No bubbles. Looking up close I’m leaning towards bone as there looks to be a grain running though most of them. But is bone this shiny?
Just went googling similar and almost wish I hadn’t. Human bone necklaces with coral and turquoise

 

@KSW try Mary, she will read glass, the needle doesn't move on plastic

 

I will do but if she is unsure she says everything is glass apart from plastic/ Amber etc which is beneath her dignity to consider reacting too.
I wish I had the one with the needle, I’ve got the rubbish hand held one that’s like the clueless kid in the class who keeps shouting out random answers until one is right

 

Just closed with a knot with the ends showing?

 

Mary says glass but I just asked her opinion on other beads that I think are bone, she refused to acknowledge some and said the others are glass. Useless witch she is! She is only reliable with amethyst, garnet, sapphire, Ruby, peridot and diamonds. One day I will save up enough for the dial model.

 

Thanks. My vote is still trade beads, wound glass, by the look of it. You can see horizontal bands and tiny stretched bubble holes on the beads. The holes look like short dark stripes due to accumulated dirt, imo.

 

Ah, so the ‘grain’ could be stretched bubbles. I can see the horizontal bands and that would explain the shininess (doubt that’s even a word but it is now).
When you say trade beads, any idea where from or when? Or could they have been made recently?
Thankyou

 

Very difficult to say. They look much like antique Dutch trade beads, but they are too shiny.
Dutch trade beads ended up in many parts of the world, mostly in West Africa.

 

Thankyou for your help
I’ll list them with lots of ‘make your own mind up’ as to the age and origin photos.
They don’t do it for me so aren’t keepers but they are interesting and I’ve been down the rabbit hole of human bone beads so I’ve learned something!

 

I think that's one hole I'll stay away from. My first reaction was bone beads, but I think Any got them right. They're too shiny, and native-made beads can have that look of inclusions too.

 

I’d say African glass trade beads. Older!