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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 394386, member: 2844&quot;]It looks like a very beautiful pressed genuine amber necklace, probably Baltic. It has some age, I think 1930s. And I&#039;m with obb, butterscotch.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because of all the amber lookalikes, and even fakes, terminology has become much stricter over the last years. To avoid problems with irate buyers, I think it is better to be safe than sorry when selling amber or amber lookalikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Amber doesn&#039;t appear in nature in a range of perfectly formed shapes, so your beads have undergone some kind of treatment other than just cutting and polishing.</p><p>Looking at the photos I think it could be pressed or reconstituted pressed amber, and probably Baltic.</p><p>- Pressing is heating chunks of natural amber until they become malleable, and then shaping them under pressure.</p><p>- Reconstituting and pressing is a similar process, but using small natural amber chips.</p><p>Both are genuine amber, but not natural amber.</p><p>They can be sold as genuine amber.</p><p>These two are not bad, they are the top range of modified amber types. They still have the properties of amber. Most genuine amber bead necklaces are made from pressed or reconstituted pressed amber.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some tests you can use:</p><p><a href="http://ethnicjewelsmagazine.com/the-identification-of-amber-and-its-copies/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ethnicjewelsmagazine.com/the-identification-of-amber-and-its-copies/" rel="nofollow">http://ethnicjewelsmagazine.com/the-identification-of-amber-and-its-copies/</a></p><p>I always start with feeling the weight, then UV light and, in the case of a bead necklace or bracelet, move on to the float test. Please don&#039;t scratch jewellery, or use hot pins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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