Orangy beads

Are this beads amber/ bakelite glass or some other stone

beads under Uv

 

I believe they are prayer beads made of Faturan. This topic has come up before so you may have luck searching old posts while you wait for those more familiar with Middle Easter religious practices to chime in.

 

They look like amber-wannabe.

 

They are tesbih/tasbeh, but I have never seen that kind of shading on Faturan, and they are not amber.
I suspect they are some sort of plastic.

Just to be sure though, are they warm or cold to the touch?
If you rub them, do you get an incense-like smell?

 

They feel first cold and after 30 sec they feels warm.

I rubbed them a minute and im not sure what to think. slightly perhaps hereis a picture of those in day light.

 

i newer heard about Faturan. so thank you

 

When you say cold, do you mean as cold as glass?

Did you test for Bakelite?

Faturan is a mix of Bakelite and natural (fossil) resins like amber or incense, depending on where it was made and who made it. Every manufacturer had his own recipe.
They stopped making it in 1940, when the supply of Bakelite dried out.
A lot of Faturan was made in Turkey, where they are now mass-producing fake Faturan, mainly for tesbih. So this is where the red flag comes out.

 

it feels warmer than glass . How do i test those for bakelite?

 

The way I test for Bakelite is to put some baking soda on a slightly moistened q-tip (wattenstaafje) and rub it on a bead. If the baking soda turns brownish or reddish it is Bakelite.

 

I hope i tested proprrly. Rubed 20-30 sec per tesbih this is the result of all rubbing

 

I think your beads are modern plastic.

 

Try the tooth tap test...tap them on your front teeth, then tap known glass and known plastic. You will immediately be able to tell the difference

 

Not bakelite. Bakelite will turn the swab yellow-brown or brown, and if you do it next to your nose it ill stink to high heaven. I just bought some beads that looked like cherry "prystal" bakelite, but felt far too light. Not real amber though; the cotton swab test was yellow brown and stank of formaldehyde. Bakelite.

 

It feels different than glass or plastic. I donno how to describe but the tapping feels lighter than glass and harder than plastic

 

There is almost no odor if i rub the beads very hard then i smell a very very light odor

 

Nope. With bakelite the pong is distinctive.

 

Thanks for explaining! I knew just enough to make me a danger in replying since I had seen similar things. Best to be quiet and learn!

 

Good to know! I've bought/keep all kinds of specialty solutions over the years just to test for Bakelite!

 

Faturan is one of the most difficult materials to identify, and the later fakes don't help.

 

New fakes of wannabe faturan/bakelite/amber are flooding the market zs we speak.
Lots of them are teshbih
I accidentaly got one in a lot of old jewelry I bought a few weeks ago.
These beads have a very bad chemical smell to them or no smell at all. Under UV they glow like your beads do. No reaction to simichrome and no nice bakelite sound when you 'cloink' them against something.
They don t have a seem but they do sometimes have weird 'holes' in them.
Be vigiliant