Plastic game pieces - what are we?

The blue and green ones are translucent, call it 1.25 inches in diameter. They don't feel like bakelite and don't seem old enough either. Before I turn the lot into a necklace, I figured I'd find out what they are.

 

I will be watching this post, as I have a short string of them, and have always wondered just what they were for.
Mine are all different colors though.

 

They look like acrylic

I would guess they were from Mah Jong

 

I will be watching this post, as I have a short string of them, and have always wondered just what they were for.
Mine are all different colors though.

This one reminds me of a baby rattle / teething toy from the days before the toy safety rules.

Peggy

 

Tiddly Winks?

 

Messi's set reminded me, too, of baby things. Circa 1950s?

 

So . . . I wonder if they (the disks) could be purchased at stores to make your own - and that would be what Evelyb has?
Mine certainly has a "home made" look to it.

 

Messi, I think sets like yours were actually sold that way, but I could be wrong. Some related memory from my childhood is trying to emerge, but keeps slipping away....

 

Rats.
Evelyb, can you shoot a photo of just 1 or 2 of them?

Maybe we can find some like them on Google Image search.

 

Nothing to do with Mah Jongg, and not tiddlywinks, you need a full wink surface to tiddle them well, the hole would ruin that. I think they are just little plastic things with holes in them.

 

Vintage Marbled Orange Early Plastic Mah Jong Coins or Beads for Repurpose

On ETSY...., but I don't think think they're correct...




Mah Jong discs are either solid or squared in the center...

 

The square hole represents the old brass 'cash' coins, but I have had many old Mah Jongg sets and always with the bamboo strip money. Modern sets may differ, and I just haven't seen one.

 

Mother's set was in Bakelite with the metal coins......circa 1950's.

 

Or at least that's when I used to play with the set......so it may have been earlier...

 

I have the same feeling. I want to put them on a peg...?

 

Could they be Buttons of some sort?

 

I don't know what they are, but here's what you can do with them if you want to make some money (!):

http://johnsidelifineart.com/workszoom/1600058

 

I have some of those as well, came in a box lot. I just wish I had an ounce of crafty ability in me to make something with them but alas that is not the case. LOL


Of course if I knew what to call them, I could list them and sell them as supplies but so far I have no clue.

 

caddy coins ?

 

My hunch is the red/green/blue ones are

I'd call them something like "plastic disks with center hole" or "flat plastic donut pendants." Etsy would probably be a good place to sell them, in the vintage supplies or supplies category, depending on their age.