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Again but with the right resolution
This is beautiful Lulu - I just love the luxury color with the mat shine on these beads! With kind regards. Peter
Hello Peter, This is Baltic Amber collected in Morocco in the 90's. It's great to get your feedback.
Lulu.
Not only glorious amber but also a canny investment. It's very hard to find amber of this quality in Morocco now. Much of it has gone to collectors or bought out by China.
Do you have a weight for this, Lulu?
I do have the details of the darker Amber. It weighs 148 grams.
It is 36 cm in Length and from the smallest to the largest bead it's 19mm to 30mm.
I spent the past winter in Morocco and I experienced the market first hand and I agree.
Do you spend time in Morocco Frankie? Lulu
Yes, I do. I have been on my own, with Sarah's tours and with friends. I'll probably return sometime too. Will you?
I haven't bought much amber there though. My best buys have been online.
Have you tested your amber, Lulu? I have a necklace I'm not sure about. I find the saturated salt water test the most definitive but this necklace has metal in too so it wouldn't work and it's strung too cleverly and traditionally for me to want to take apart.
Yes I hope to spend some time again this winter. Sounds as if the necklace you describe is an original, "Folk Art" and I believe this has it's own value, real amber or not - it would be a shame to take it apart. I have never heard of the saturated salt water test! I guess that would work for single beads.
Hi Frankie, amber is a light and soft material substitutes are mostly much heavier and harder, tap with the nail on plastic in comparison. When there is dought and the necessity to know for sure the ultimate test is the redhot needle placed in the inside drilling you will smell the difference very easily. This way you can in most cases avoid undoing the piece.
Thanks, Rolf.
I am quite an amber freak and know the tests. The particular necklace I'm talking about has had every test that can be done on it including by people in Marrakech souks knowledgeable about the amber traditionally used in Moroccan necklaces. They have hot pin tested it and pronounced it as amber. The problem lies with myself. My sense of smell is not good enough to be sure of it particularly as it seems too heavy to me.
See more amber in my photos.
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