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<p>[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 26225, member: 78"]Hi,</p><p> I was only being hesitent for a reason. A Polish friend brought me back an amber and silver tree from that period. She paid a lot or it and knows the difference. The marks were like this one but it turned out not to have any silver, well it had a silver wash and the tree and branches looked like the handle in the first photos. The amber leaves were amber on some of them, the others were some sort of plastic. Iwona was very apologetic about it but as I told her. It was the unrest and polical changes that were happening then in the late 70s early 80s. During that time the old style Soviet thinking was clashing with the new changes. I really am uneasy with a lot of things being made and sold during the period. With a little heat amber gives off the pine/turpentine odor. The plastics have a chemical smell. When I took off the leaves and dropped them into salted water some sank and some floated. The amber floats.</p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 26225, member: 78"]Hi, I was only being hesitent for a reason. A Polish friend brought me back an amber and silver tree from that period. She paid a lot or it and knows the difference. The marks were like this one but it turned out not to have any silver, well it had a silver wash and the tree and branches looked like the handle in the first photos. The amber leaves were amber on some of them, the others were some sort of plastic. Iwona was very apologetic about it but as I told her. It was the unrest and polical changes that were happening then in the late 70s early 80s. During that time the old style Soviet thinking was clashing with the new changes. I really am uneasy with a lot of things being made and sold during the period. With a little heat amber gives off the pine/turpentine odor. The plastics have a chemical smell. When I took off the leaves and dropped them into salted water some sank and some floated. The amber floats. greg[/QUOTE]
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