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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 423260, member: 2844"]There are also simple ways of testing amber yourself. The easiest is the UV test, using a simple UV-flashlight. Never do anything that could damage the stones.</p><p>But having seen, collected and sold a lot of Baltic amber jewellery (an addiction<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />), I'd say Polish reconstructed Baltic amber.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some other tests:</p><p><a href="http://ethnicjewelsmagazine.com/the-identification-of-amber-and-its-copies/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ethnicjewelsmagazine.com/the-identification-of-amber-and-its-copies/" rel="nofollow">http://ethnicjewelsmagazine.com/the-identification-of-amber-and-its-copies/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 423260, member: 2844"]There are also simple ways of testing amber yourself. The easiest is the UV test, using a simple UV-flashlight. Never do anything that could damage the stones. But having seen, collected and sold a lot of Baltic amber jewellery (an addiction;)), I'd say Polish reconstructed Baltic amber. Here are some other tests: [URL]http://ethnicjewelsmagazine.com/the-identification-of-amber-and-its-copies/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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