Featured What Are These Beads Made Out Of?

Towards the clasp is obviously branch coral. The other beads are quite uniform but also have some small pitting here and there which made me think they are also coral, maybe a lower grade dyed coral, but coral nonetheless. IDK why someone would throw that branch coral on the ends if the rest wasn't coral as well.

Thoughts?

Edit: apologies if I've asked about this before...I thought I did, but I don't see it in my post history.

 

Looks like a mushel. Those beads in the back look like coral. The roses may well be ivory, and if not they're probably bone. The rest... glass?

 

A gorgeous necklace, tie. The colours work so well together.
There seems to be a seam across the central bead. It looks like glass tile and globular beads, and carved bone.
Someone added coral branch beads they had, for extra length.
The pitting on some of the tile beads could indicate an Asian origin.

 

What's a mushel? Tried google to no avail.

 

It does look like a seam in the picture, but there's none on there. Just a bit of extrusion or bulging that makes it appear to be a seam.

Consensus seems to be glass, so I guess that's what it is. I'll look at the Asian angle. Thanks ladies!

 

A bunch of different materials mushed together …. Just my guess

 

A mixed conglomeration of random elements with no particular relation to each other. Pretty much. It's descended from either Yiddish or New York State German-sorta.

 

Aha, thanks.