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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 323113, member: 2844"]Davey, how does it look under UV light?</p><p>It could be pressed amber of the kind widely used in the GDR. That was a mix of real Baltic amber and artificial resin.</p><p>Amber-resin mixes had been made for a long time, but never as convincingly as this, and GDR scientists were very proud of the result. No doubt they got a bonus and a holiday in a state resort on the Baltic coast.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>It is often seen in post-1947 Fischland jewellery, like this ring:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcQgaLVsYBhSZ3HThulq5pTJET0jaBip-DTDfLXXCEO9vXIko54&sp=c6bfb8edb309d7a840103b6d84879425&anticache=593102" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is still used in some parts of Northeastern Europe, yours could be a 1980s Polish piece.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 323113, member: 2844"]Davey, how does it look under UV light? It could be pressed amber of the kind widely used in the GDR. That was a mix of real Baltic amber and artificial resin. Amber-resin mixes had been made for a long time, but never as convincingly as this, and GDR scientists were very proud of the result. No doubt they got a bonus and a holiday in a state resort on the Baltic coast.;) It is often seen in post-1947 Fischland jewellery, like this ring: [IMG]https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcQgaLVsYBhSZ3HThulq5pTJET0jaBip-DTDfLXXCEO9vXIko54&sp=c6bfb8edb309d7a840103b6d84879425&anticache=593102[/IMG] It is still used in some parts of Northeastern Europe, yours could be a 1980s Polish piece.[/QUOTE]
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