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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 956511, member: 2844&quot;]I grew up in Australia, where we also had the term Diggers for nationalists. It came from the gold diggers, and came to be associated with the Eureka stockade, where the diggers set up an independent state. The Eureka diggers were defeated, but the dream lived on, although sometimes in a less savoury way.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know kauri gum does, because it is resin from the kauri tree.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> But I was talking talking about copal from the Americas, quote:</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing is, kauri gum is rarely seen outside NZ. If it is seen, it is in NZ crafts.</p><p>KSW lives in the UK, where the likelihood of finding either kauri gum or copal jewellery is negligible. Baltic amber is much more likely, simply because of the proximity.</p><p>And if it looks exactly like Baltic amber, and it is made in a jewellery style native to the eastern Baltic region, it is like &#039;if it walks like a duck&#039; etc.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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