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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9771120, member: 2844"]It looks like amber to me, and probably Baltic amber. It is nicer than most chip necklaces, because it has those butterscotch and egg yolk amber chips at regular intervals.</p><p><br /></p><p>But you can test for copal. The easiest and safest test is UV light. Copal usually doesn't fluoresce, but if it does, it fluoresces white.</p><p>So no reaction or white = copal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9771120, member: 2844"]It looks like amber to me, and probably Baltic amber. It is nicer than most chip necklaces, because it has those butterscotch and egg yolk amber chips at regular intervals. But you can test for copal. The easiest and safest test is UV light. Copal usually doesn't fluoresce, but if it does, it fluoresces white. So no reaction or white = copal.[/QUOTE]
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