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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4502506, member: 2844"]No need for UV in this case.</p><p><br /></p><p>Faturan is from Turkey and the Middle East, a great distance from Morocco, which is on the Atlantic coast of North Africa (and a bit of the Western Mediterranean).</p><p><br /></p><p>You could test them for bakelite, but it could be 'something different'. If they don't test as bakelite, faux amber is the safest term to use.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Berber women are known for making faux amber by melting platic buckets and adding the right pigments. I don't know if they were already doing that when these beads were made, but it is a possibility.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4502506, member: 2844"]No need for UV in this case. Faturan is from Turkey and the Middle East, a great distance from Morocco, which is on the Atlantic coast of North Africa (and a bit of the Western Mediterranean). You could test them for bakelite, but it could be 'something different'. If they don't test as bakelite, faux amber is the safest term to use.;) Berber women are known for making faux amber by melting platic buckets and adding the right pigments. I don't know if they were already doing that when these beads were made, but it is a possibility.[/QUOTE]
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