Featured Two pairs of earrings need of help in ID please

Hi folks and Happy New Year!
Among my last year's acquisitions are two pairs of dangle earrings of which I struggle to identify origin and age. One is amber (looks natural under UV light) and the other is stone, probably amethyst (not sure if it comes banded) with a smaller diamond cut stone (also amethyst ??) on the top. The amethyst pair is marked 925, the amber one is not marked and not tested. Will appreciate any opinion on origin and age of the two pairs, also if amethyst can be banded or it is not amethyst at all. The smaller stones are dark purple and quite well preserved (no chips or cracks, no wear of edges) which makes me think that they are made of some hard stone, no idea what.
Thank you for looking!

 

Banded is agate, possibly dyed. I suspect both are from somewhere like Bali or Indonesia, and relatively recent.

 

Thank you, Ownedbybear! I didn't know that there was cognac amber in Indonesia, it looked to me European (the amber, not the whole piece). Maybe imported??

 

Almost certainly. Gemstones move around more than Covid germs.

 

Couldn't have put it better myself. Navajo using coral, for example.

 

Or synthetic opals for inlay.

 

And spiny oyster!

 

This is actually intriguing. This amber started from North Europe - Baltic, travelled far East, crossed almost the entire globe to Indonesia, was made into earrings there, then travelled back to Europe and ended up at a flee market in the Balkans. Quite a journey!

 

That's how things work these days.

 

They always have, too. It's one of the things I love.