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<p>[QUOTE="BMRT, post: 2977655, member: 10892"]This one came in a junk lot of old bits and pieces. It’s as it arrived, nothing has been cleaned or fiddled with. </p><p><br /></p><p>The clasp looks brass or close to it. No marks. The string is thick, plastic and clear. I have no idea if it’s original. The beads is what I’m most curious about. They are different colors of brown and golden at the same time. It isn’t heavy so my guess is some type of plastic? The little spacers are a base metal silver in color. I don’t think it’s amber although it looks like it’s trying to be. The few amber items I have are all mounted in silver. I can’t tell if an amber piece is heavy or very light on it’s own.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t think this is any type of natural stone. What other plastics can you guess that I may try to test for? [ATTACH=full]288550[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]288552[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]288555[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]288556[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BMRT, post: 2977655, member: 10892"]This one came in a junk lot of old bits and pieces. It’s as it arrived, nothing has been cleaned or fiddled with. The clasp looks brass or close to it. No marks. The string is thick, plastic and clear. I have no idea if it’s original. The beads is what I’m most curious about. They are different colors of brown and golden at the same time. It isn’t heavy so my guess is some type of plastic? The little spacers are a base metal silver in color. I don’t think it’s amber although it looks like it’s trying to be. The few amber items I have are all mounted in silver. I can’t tell if an amber piece is heavy or very light on it’s own. I don’t think this is any type of natural stone. What other plastics can you guess that I may try to test for? [ATTACH=full]288550[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]288552[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]288555[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]288556[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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