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picked up this mondo chunky amber heart pendant as well

still can't find my torch but the colour was glorious no matter what it is

has a little 925 thingmy that has come off

 

amber..... with those air bubbles..???

 

yeah i thought the same kome but google it

 

the colours so nice its gotta be

 

It is very sweet, and the fluorescence looks good to me.
The bail is not recent, but difficult to say how old exactly.

Because amber is fossilized tree sap/resin, it can have bubbles in it. It also has a few 'spangles', flattened bubbles that occur when amber is heated and pressed into shape.

 

awesome thanks Aj, and it had everything going against it with them bubbles, i nearly put it back because of them till i felt it and saw the colour

think the nicest amber i've seen yet

 

A bit difficult to see the exact colour against your hand, but it is either cognac amber or honey amber.

 

good for you Charles !!!

 

thanks mate, its not bubbles.......its prehistoric bubbles

 

Jurassic Park bubbles!

 

Nice lump. Are there any insects in it? I got shafted with a plastic faux amber necklace. It fluoresced like amber and I thought happy days. Unfortunately it smelt like burning plastic when I burnt a broken fragment.. I guess the only sure fire method to ID it is burn it or do the salt water test. Not really practical in a shop.

 

Nice examples.

 

I learn so much here. I would have purchased that heart in a heart beat.

 

Amber and a heart?? It's a two-fer! Good find!

 

should smell like sweet pine, gissa looky if u still have, i'm intrigued

 

i'm guessing cognac, quite interesting looking inside, not sure what those shapes are

 

The blood of ancient creatures , fighting to free themselves from the sap slowly smothering them..!!!

try not picturing that.....

 

Yes, it is cognac amber, lovely. The shapes are inclusions, looks like blossom petals.