Featured Amber Brooch and pendant

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by KSW, Mar 13, 2019.

  1. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    I’d like opinions on these two pieces please :happy:. As my ‘Amber’ beads turned out to possibly be part yellow bucket ( although gorgeous and loved, they are now known as the yellow bucket beads!) Do these look right? Insect in the odd pendant and lots if ‘stuff’ in the other one.
    Brooch is marked 835 (?) and tests as silver.
    Pendant is stamped 925.
    Any idea of era please?
    Thankyou AF50825F-6AD8-4BDA-BD83-748C6C3F70D7.jpeg 3CE27F6F-3DF6-4CC3-958E-AAFFA4DF6D19.jpeg 8630164F-A400-49A5-997B-F9690A7DE384.jpeg B4E17081-5C38-4FF2-A2AF-162E019B7182.jpeg ECA3825C-68A0-490C-AA46-14FD818CF2FA.jpeg D1D24CD4-E453-4BD9-B2CF-3F0A85061CA0.jpeg 3B92C67D-1A5C-4F53-AD5F-2AB5F455AC8C.jpeg
     
  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    The brooch is 1950s-60s Baltic amber, possibly GDR (East Germany) made. Nice chunk.;)
    The pendant looks like amber, not European. Central America maybe?
     
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  3. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    What would the lighter yellow outer ring likely to be made of?

    Yay, so proper Amber!. I've just learned about Baltic and German Amber on Wikipedia.
    Any ideas why stamped 835? Does that narrow it down to Germany?
    Is CA Amber lighter in colour?.
    Is the pendant 50s/60s too?. Slightly odd arrangement with the springy thing attaching the Amber
    Sorry, so many questions!
     
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  4. ulilwitch

    ulilwitch Well-Known Member

    A friend of mine has some jewelry that has bugs in them but they are resin. For some reason they make me squeamish.
     
  5. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    Did you hide in your closet yet and do the UV test?
     
  6. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It makes Germany a likely suspect. 835 is the silver fineness.
    This style, with a rough chunk of amber attached to a simple pin, is very eastern Baltic. It stems from the strong historic relationship with and love of amber. To their ancestors amber had a soul, and was a jewel as it was.
    Other eastern Baltic regions had real hallmarks, so you would see a row of stamps. The GDR didn't, and they often used 835 silver. So did West Germany and Denmark, but they generally didn't mount a chunk of amber on a brooch.;)

    It can be different colours, but they often have that clear amber with insects. It doesn't have a Baltic amber 'feel'. I have no idea of the age of that one, I don't know much about amber from the Americas.
    Baltic is what I grew up with, so that is familiar. I got my first Baltic amber pendant, an egg yolk amber heart, as a baby.:)
     
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  7. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    :hilarious::hilarious: I can't fit in my closet as it's full of my hoard I'm hiding from hubbie :hilarious::hilarious:
    I've got a tiny UV light but it's pretty pathetic, I'll have to get another!
     
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  8. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    The things amber will make us do.:rolleyes:
     
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  9. patd8643

    patd8643 Well-Known Member

    Is your last picture an egg yolk ring around the clear bug amber piece?
    Patd
     
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  10. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    You can fit a pony in there?
     
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  11. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Have you been watching me?!, yes, he does occasionally question why I have hoof prints on my shirts and there is hay in his boxers!:hilarious::hilarious:
     
  12. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    I don't know, I suppose it could be but I don't know enough about Amber to judge if it looks right or not.
     
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  13. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    That's what it looks like. Amber can be made into any shape, when heated.
     
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  14. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    Are the bugs in your friend's resin jewelry real or fake, @ulilwitch ?
     
  15. ulilwitch

    ulilwitch Well-Known Member

    I don't know. She is very very sick. She bought them at a flea market. She told me that they were not gems but resin. I doubt if they were real insects.
     
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  16. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    Thanks ... I was just curious. And I just remembered that amber is also resin but not the plastic type. It is fossilized resin that came from pine trees.
     
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  17. ulilwitch

    ulilwitch Well-Known Member

    That is extremely interesting. Thank you for sharing.
     
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  18. patd8643

    patd8643 Well-Known Member

    I suspect if they are real amber, any bugs are real - or were. I have several pieces with interesting bugs.
    Patd
     
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