Amber necklace

So, for once, this isn’t an ‘Is it Amber?’ post as it definitely shows fluorescence under UV light.
But it looks like the amber chips are pressed or set in resin of some sort?. What do you think?
Thankyou

 

Does indeed look as amber pieces included in some kind of clear resin, interesting!

 

it's reconstituted amber. Basically, heat treated bits mixed into linseed oil.

 

So is the whole thing Amber or just the chips in the middle?

 

Yes! Asked OH to buy some and he came home with a petite little pack of fancy pants sea salt!. Got ideas way above his station I think

 

Most of it will be amber, it sort of sits in the linseed resin if that makes sense.

 

What sort of date were these made?

 

It goes back a few decades. Not sure of the exact date but at least the seventies.

 

Those are creepily fantastic!. Poor little bugs minding their own business and suddenly they are looking at us 40 million years later

 

Hi,
That is how they got the dinosaurs for Jurassic Park. They took the insects and got the DNA from the stomach of the bug that bit a dinosaur.
greg.

 

Don't disillusion me Davey!

 

Yep. And locked into the amber so they could bedevil us humans millions of years later.

 

It could be modified amber, made of amber chips bonded together under high pressure and heat:

Does the whole bead fluoresce, or just the amber chips?
If it is just the chips that fluoresce, it could be polybern. 'Poly' for polyester resin, and 'bern' for Bernstein, the German word for amber. The kind of wear at the ends of the beads, with that rough fritting, looks like polybern.
Polybern was invented in the GDR.

Polybern, you can see it looks much like modified amber, but the separate chips are more distinct and easily recognised as chips:


These are silver and polybern bracelets by the Fischland company, mid-century GDR:

 

From that description it looks very much like PolyBern. I'm at work now but I’ll check the fluorescence tonight. Thankyou

 

Part fluorescence of polybern on one of my Fischland pieces, a silver Brutalist pendant. Detail of the back, where there is an amber chip pretty close to the surface. It is the bit on the right of the bead, the whitish blob on the left is resin which attaches the bead to the pin:


The same part in daylight, the deeper chips are visible now, but not on the UV photo:


The pendant:

 

Very nice