Featured And amber.

Anyone recognise the mark on the big pendant please? The amber beads were cheap in a charity shop, as I surreptitiously fished out the UV torch....

 

Ooh lovely! Great finds. Will the mark clean up at all?

 

Nah, it's a badly struck UK hallmark, I think, but it won't go sharper. Beads were three squid.

 

Bargain! Is the pendant gold?

 

Silver: it's reflecting gold from the amber.

 

Might be 1955 London mark if the letter on the right is a simple U.

 

But that one wouldn't have the 925. So it's something else. 2019?

 

Nice! I'd be busily restringing those oblongs. If they're on the original cotton with a nasty barrel clasp, they need knotting onto a narrow rattail or something. I've been known to throw a copper toggle on them. Maybe sterling if there's one going begging.

 

Love the Amber bead necklace obb !!

Love even more the thought of you hitting it with some uv, surreptitiously of course !!

 

When ever I buy anything in a charity shop nowadays, the manager usually comes out looking worried !!

 

There is one charity shop that I rarely go into now as the moment the chap sees me coming he is getting his loupe out of his pocket. Sadly he doesn’t seem to need a lunch break either .

 

The pendant came from the same shop. That, they had fifteen quid on, which is still pretty decent. The beads were just on a rack. Even without the UV, I'd have bought them.
Bakers, many thanks. 2019 makes most sense, given the 925 and the style. Now you've said that, I can see the mark.

 

You're very welcome, OBB. Some days the eyes work and some they don't.