Featured amber bracelet

true or fake ? TIA:

 

Did you try a uv light on it? It should fluoresce like this or something like this. You need to do it in the dark to make it work.

 

Lovely, Fid. I'd say genuine Baltic egg yolk amber. It looks like the bracelets that have been coming out of Poland recently, but I don't recognize the mark, could be a maker's mark. Polish silversmiths love Art Nouveau.

 

thanks a lot for the hints. no UV light because I'm not into jewelry normally. but once in a while I see something that my wife might like, so...

 

I agree with aj. Nice modern egg yolk amber.

 

It is a good piece.

 

Looks legit. Am I imagining things or is that a boar mark on there?

 

Very like a boar.

 

Beautiful!

 

Trust me, she will like this!.

 

Not the boar mark though, not the French one. I suspect it is the maker's mark, a few squiggles. He or she may have handwriting like mine.

 

Mine doesn't look that good; I've always said my Dad was the reason God/Goddess invented typewriters, and I inherited a lot from Dad. Can crappy handwriting run in a family???

 

A teacher once said my handwriting was as bad as my brother's, so maybe yes.

 

Only two or three people could really read my dad's handwriting, and he was the "or three". "Ruth, what did I write"? (LOL) In his case it was years of engineering schooling. In mine, schooling plus working left-handed on desks angled for right-handers for yoinks. Killed it dead, it did.