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Amber beads

Amber beads, 12 g, 25 g, 59 g. The largest bead is repaired with strips of copper. Any comments on age and origin are welcome
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  • Beautiful old beads. You are lucky to have them.

  • These are new beads from Marrakech in Morocco they are all resin which is made to imitate amber. The centre one was likely made from recycled cassette boxes.

    They are sold by the kilo

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    2506008397?profile=RESIZE_320x3202506011379?profile=RESIZE_320x320here are a few others for comparison

    S x

  • Thanks for your kind words Toya, Although not so lucky as one would wish ;)

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