Featured Amber Brooch and pendant

I’d like opinions on these two pieces please . As my ‘Amber’ beads turned out to possibly be part yellow bucket ( although gorgeous and loved, they are now known as the yellow bucket beads!) Do these look right? Insect in the odd pendant and lots if ‘stuff’ in the other one.
Brooch is marked 835 (?) and tests as silver.
Pendant is stamped 925.
Any idea of era please?
Thankyou

 

The brooch is 1950s-60s Baltic amber, possibly GDR (East Germany) made. Nice chunk.
The pendant looks like amber, not European. Central America maybe?

 

What would the lighter yellow outer ring likely to be made of?

Yay, so proper Amber!. I've just learned about Baltic and German Amber on Wikipedia.
Any ideas why stamped 835? Does that narrow it down to Germany?
Is CA Amber lighter in colour?.
Is the pendant 50s/60s too?. Slightly odd arrangement with the springy thing attaching the Amber
Sorry, so many questions!

 

A friend of mine has some jewelry that has bugs in them but they are resin. For some reason they make me squeamish.

 

Did you hide in your closet yet and do the UV test?

 

It makes Germany a likely suspect. 835 is the silver fineness.
This style, with a rough chunk of amber attached to a simple pin, is very eastern Baltic. It stems from the strong historic relationship with and love of amber. To their ancestors amber had a soul, and was a jewel as it was.
Other eastern Baltic regions had real hallmarks, so you would see a row of stamps. The GDR didn't, and they often used 835 silver. So did West Germany and Denmark, but they generally didn't mount a chunk of amber on a brooch.

It can be different colours, but they often have that clear amber with insects. It doesn't have a Baltic amber 'feel'. I have no idea of the age of that one, I don't know much about amber from the Americas.
Baltic is what I grew up with, so that is familiar. I got my first Baltic amber pendant, an egg yolk amber heart, as a baby.

 

I can't fit in my closet as it's full of my hoard I'm hiding from hubbie
I've got a tiny UV light but it's pretty pathetic, I'll have to get another!

 

The things amber will make us do.

 

Is your last picture an egg yolk ring around the clear bug amber piece?
Patd

 

You can fit a pony in there?

 

Have you been watching me?!, yes, he does occasionally question why I have hoof prints on my shirts and there is hay in his boxers!

 

I don't know, I suppose it could be but I don't know enough about Amber to judge if it looks right or not.

 

That's what it looks like. Amber can be made into any shape, when heated.

 

Are the bugs in your friend's resin jewelry real or fake, @ulilwitch ?

 

I don't know. She is very very sick. She bought them at a flea market. She told me that they were not gems but resin. I doubt if they were real insects.

 

Thanks ... I was just curious. And I just remembered that amber is also resin but not the plastic type. It is fossilized resin that came from pine trees.

 

That is extremely interesting. Thank you for sharing.

 

I suspect if they are real amber, any bugs are real - or were. I have several pieces with interesting bugs.
Patd