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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4395971, member: 2844&quot;]Love the ring.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> Does the stone feel cold or warm(ish)?</p><p>Not all amber fluoresces, and sometimes it is difficult to identify fluorescence. I remember a recent thread by Dory, where she didn&#039;t know that what she saw in UV light was actually how egg yolk amber fluoresces.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cabochon looks like half an antique Moroccan &quot;copal amber&quot; bead. The setting is Western style, and probably made in the West, either Europe or North America.</p><p>&quot;Copal amber&quot; is confusing, I suspect those beads are actually a type of copal, so a pre-amber stage of resin fossilisation.</p><p>Although copal is often transparent, certain types can be translucent or opaque.</p><p>Many old Moroccan beads have cracks and crazing from long exposure to sun and heat. That can happen more easily in copal than in amber.</p><p>So I would call it copal, to be on the safe side.</p><p><br /></p><p>Antique Moroccan &quot;copal amber&quot; bead necklace:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]370920[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/huge-moroccan-berber-african-copal-1810924570" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/huge-moroccan-berber-african-copal-1810924570" rel="nofollow">https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/huge-moroccan-berber-african-copal-1810924570</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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