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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 534533, member: 2844&quot;]It makes Germany a likely suspect. 835 is the silver fineness.</p><p>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.</p><p>Other eastern Baltic regions had real hallmarks, so you would see a row of stamps. The GDR didn&#039;t, and they often used 835 silver. So did West Germany and Denmark, but they generally didn&#039;t mount a chunk of amber on a brooch.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It can be different colours, but they often have that clear amber with insects. It doesn&#039;t have a Baltic amber &#039;feel&#039;. I have no idea of the age of that one, I don&#039;t know much about amber from the Americas.</p><p>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.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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