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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 920077, member: 5833&quot;]Back when I finally got a UV flashlight &amp; amused myself with trying it out on anything &amp; everything in the house, out of all the stuff in my display cabinet, only a handful of things really glowed or changed color.&nbsp; The paper used for little paper identifying tags that came with some of my seashells glows blue.&nbsp; The mottling on one cowrie shell goes from brown to magenta.&nbsp; A green stone turns to deep red (posted in a thread here &amp; determined to be probably a chrome tourmaline.)&nbsp; And a plastic button with Medusa on it glows brightly.</p><p><br /></p><p>AJ, could the beads be pressed amber?&nbsp; They actually look a lot like Bakelite to me, but in all the talk about recognizing Bakelite we&#039;ve had on the site, can&#039;t recall fluorescence being mentioned as a property.&nbsp; My sense is that they are a man made material, perhaps meant to resemble amber, &amp; my observation is that some plastics do respond to UV light.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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