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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 93403, member: 29"]True amber will produce static electricity when rubbed with silk, floats and also gives a hazy blue veil under UV light. HOWEVER the same applies to reconstituted amber which is bits put together. </p><p><br /></p><p>The stunningly expensive stuff is butterscotch amber in proper bead form. It can go for tens of thousands, as it's sought after in China and the Middle East. I sold a very small necklace for almost four hundred pounds. A friend fished out a very battered old one and I got six hundred for that. </p><p><br /></p><p>The first post here shows a necklace of Baltic amber polished chips. Value is about twenty to forty pounds here. Very recent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 93403, member: 29"]True amber will produce static electricity when rubbed with silk, floats and also gives a hazy blue veil under UV light. HOWEVER the same applies to reconstituted amber which is bits put together. The stunningly expensive stuff is butterscotch amber in proper bead form. It can go for tens of thousands, as it's sought after in China and the Middle East. I sold a very small necklace for almost four hundred pounds. A friend fished out a very battered old one and I got six hundred for that. The first post here shows a necklace of Baltic amber polished chips. Value is about twenty to forty pounds here. Very recent.[/QUOTE]
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