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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9965315, member: 2844&quot;]Reconstituted/reconstructed/bonded amber looks different, it is made of amber chips that are bonded together using another material. The individual chips are recognizable and often of different colours. Your Socrates is older than most bonding techniques.</p><p><br /></p><p>Socrates&#039; backside<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> looks like pressed amber to me. Pressed amber can have round bubbles and occasionally swirls. Although swirls are usually a sign of a man made material.</p><p>Amber can change texture over time, and if it isn&#039;t cared for and kept in good conditions it can develop that tiny crackling. You often see that on pre-historic amber, but of course your Socrates isn&#039;t that old, he just hasn&#039;t been cared for. Probably sat in a drawer for a century or more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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