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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 622022, member: 2844&quot;]It could be modified amber, made of amber chips bonded together under high pressure and heat:</p><p><img src="https://files.amber.org.pl/siteDisplay/amber.org.pl/image/mod/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.goettgen.de/schmuck-foren/attachment_processor.php?mode=thumb_file&amp;id=6206" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Does the whole bead fluoresce, or just the amber chips?</p><p>If it is just the chips that fluoresce, it could be polybern. &#039;Poly&#039; for polyester resin, and &#039;bern&#039; for Bernstein, the German word for amber. The kind of wear at the ends of the beads, with that rough fritting, looks like polybern.</p><p>Polybern was invented in the GDR.</p><p><br /></p><p>Polybern, you can see it looks much like modified amber, but the separate chips are more distinct and easily recognised as chips:</p><p><img src="https://www.heilsteine.info/resources/image/thumb/63836" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>These are silver and polybern bracelets by the Fischland company, mid-century GDR:</p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zKQAAOSwh1paQ48w/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/-IIAAOSwtjtanRgx/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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