Help with bead and any comment?

[justahula]

Going down the rabbit hole of what is this?

Thanks for taking a look!

[old.crows.nest]

I agree Sarah, Featherlite is very smooth and hard looking. Sometimes though when it is painted it gets a surface like a chalk slurry or maybe Milk Paint?

[old.crows.nest]

Has anyone ever had any crafty bits for making old time botanical brooches? Some of the parts and pieces might be fake and others real and they would be wrapped together with green tape and attached to safety pins. These beads kind of remind me of that kind of thing.

[old.crows.nest]

Ah, could these be flocked not painted?

[justahula]

Thank you for all the replies and helping me think this thru.

Looking more close with a magnifier it looks like color goes all the way thru.

I don't see where anything has chipped off.

Even the little green leaves look like applied, not painted.

Surface is a matte finish.

Clicking them on the desk they make a little noise almost if they were a small glass bead not millinery.

If anyone comes across these in their future jewelry adventures,

Please dig this thread back up!