Featured Amber necklace and earclips

Yes, amber is lightweight.

Just to be sure, Dessert, did you do the float test (in salt water)? Just a warning, it doesn't distinguish copal from amber.

Not familiar with the term either. Is there amber in the Black Sea that you know of? I don't think the Adriatic or Aegean have amber, but you never know.

 

IvaPan, thank you very much!
Flemish jewelry is almost always made of silver (backed with gold) with senailles (diamond chips).
The 3 jewels I held in my hand in the picture (brooch, earrings, tie pin) all have diamond chips. One exception is the the biggest stone in the brooch, which got replaced by a rose cut rock crystal at one point in time.
The small flower brooch you can see next to the seahorse pendant is paste.

 

Any Jewelry, I didn't do the float test, only UV light.
I made some pictures next to some amber I had laying around...
Not sure about the earrings either now...
I did test them with simichrome, because when I bought I presumed they could be bakelite, but hélas.

 

Dessert, although the last photo shows white, the others show a convincing amber UV-reaction with that blue/fuchsia.

Maybe the white reacting bead was confused, a slow learner maybe?

 

Aj, I know, I m so confused now!
Would copal give the same reaction as amber?
still leaning towards the copal theory with these air bubble-channels...

 

Dessert, I just checked my files for the amber UV info, and it says:
"Also may fluoresce white, yellow, green or blue."

So your one bead wasn't confused, I was. And I got you confused.

Copal can give a white reaction, but it is usually inert.

 

Amber can also have gas bubble channels. It is a natural process when tree resin solidifies that gas forms and escapes. Sometimes it doesn't get a chance to escape.

 

AJ thank you!
Wearing them with pride

 

Yay!!!

 

No, to my knowledge. Nowhere on the Balkans.
I was wondering what Komo had in mind...

 

Oops, the penny drops.... I think he may have meant Baltic.

 

Yes, probably just a lapsus. Maybe he will explain though.