Why So Much Information? To inform my customers these amber pieces offered are 100% genuine, prehistoric and naturally fossilized Baltic Amber dating in the era of at least 40-60 millions years old and to assure its authenticity with a Full 100% Money-Back Refund, if they are not sold...
Why So Much Information? To inform my customers these amber pieces offered are 100% genuine, prehistoric and naturally fossilized Baltic Amber dating in the era of at least 40-60 millions years old and to assure its authenticity with a Full 100% Money-Back Refund, if they are not sold as described! Unless otherwise noted, all amber is from the Baltic Sea region; the majority derived from the Kaliningrad Oblast off the Sambian Peninsula. NOTE: We DO NOT Offer any Copal or Kauri Gum (Immature Resins), plastics or imitations, fakes, glass, or reconstituted, fused, or reconstructed amber designs as these are not considered to be "True Natural Fossilized Amber" materials. With so many imitations flooding the consumer markets and dealers offering Copal as Amber, upon our customer's request, we openly divulge and provide easy at home tests, our customers can perform to differentiate between real or fake amber, or between Amber and Copal in order to Guarantee Each and Every Amber design offered is created by using Genuine Authentic Baltic Amber.">
Important Support Notes: Black Amber...really? Yes, really...well, kind of really. As most knowledgeable individuals can research the internet, they will find there is no such occurrence of true and genuine "black-colored" amber. Some might refer to "black amber" as being "jet", an organic mineraloid variety of lignite coal. Jet is a product of high pressure decomposition of "wood" resulting from carbon compression and salt water occurring over millions of years, which might be sold off and termed as being "black amber". However, jet contains no succinate acid (genuine amber) whatsoever, so it should not be sold as or be labeled as being "amber" of any type. Jet has also been called "black amber" since its qualities may induce an electrical charge, similar to genuine amber when rubbed. Regardless, there is a more appropriately named "black amber" called Rumanite, a brownish-yellow amber from Romania, which contains a considerable amount of sulfur. Rumanite is a variety of "black amber", but actually appears more as a deep red, blue, or brown when held to a light source. Finally, there is Baltic "Black Amber" as in this item being offered. Baltic "Black Amber" is actually normal appearing genuine amber (likely honey or cognac in color), which has mixed-in or was covered with prehistoric volcanic ash when it dropped down the tree onto the ground. Upon closer observations of the item's pictures, you can see portions of normal amber exposed on some of the beads and others completely covered, but when held up to a light source, the amber's true inner glow appears. Baltic "Black Amber" designs are typically available with two types of surface textures; polished and sand-matte. The polished designs have been surface buffed to display a more smooth and glossy black color appearance. The sand-matted designs have been surface scored with abrasives to display a more matted, grayish-black color appearance. However, through continuous wear, the matted designs will naturally absorb your skin oils and over a prolonged period of time will become smoother and naturally polished, and eventually will turn its grayish-black color to the more solid, glossy black color. Please trust this very rare item is natural, Baltic "Black Amber", which has not been colored, treated, or dusted off recently with Mount St. Helen's ash or rolled around in dirt...but genuine, prehistoric amber mixed in with prehistoric volcanic ash. Next to Dominican "Blue" amber being the rarest of all amber colors, Baltic "Black Amber" places second amongst the color list due to its limited regional distribution areas of volcanic ash deposits surrounding the Baltic States. As such, the price value of Baltic "Black Amber" is somewhat higher as compared to other commonly known color varieties of amber. The historical details of how Baltic "Black Amber" is formed intrigued me enough to make this design line available. Currently, Baltic "Black Amber" designs are very popular in Germany and in very high demand throughout Europe; it is somewhat less known in the U.S., Canada, and other countries and the primary reason for my making it availability to my potential customers. As always, please feel free to ask any questions regarding this rarer type of amber.
Additional Details: I am proud to offer you this Contemporary Line of Exclusive Designs Created by our sole-source supplier, and importers of Fine Baltic Amber Jewelry. Having been in the Baltic amber and gems jewelry business for over five decades, they are considered to be one of the world's biggest distributors of amber produced from the Baltic region. To me, their amber appears to be alive, even after millions of years have already passed us by; their pieces seem to glow with a breath and life that only the finest amber produced and fossilized by nature can provide…a direct and natural link between the present and our past is time captured in each glowing piece! These characteristics truly define the gorgeous collection of quality amber pieces being offered. Each high quality amber piece is thoroughly inspected before it’s made available. All their works are handmade to maintain their unique character. Now you can experience the beauty of this natural gemstone which has been crafted by worldwide artisans. Superbly hand-crafted with detail, each and every unique amber piece inspires an exquisitely beautiful creation of fossilized art! As a substantial amount of material is sacrificed to create these calibrated designs, the investment value greatly increases, aside from the rare value of the amber material being used to ultimately create this necklace. About Our Sole-Source Supplier: What started out as a Ukrainian couple's business dream over 50 years ago, developed and became reality. Since its inception, they steadily expanded their two-person venture into the well-known and appreciated family-run company it is today. Offering only the finest quality of genuine Baltic amber, countless jewelry-related businesses have grown to appreciate their integrity and consistent reliability of always offering unique designs created by some of the best jewelry designers in the world. They have achieved a worldwide recognition status by promoting their continuous growth and development in different countries. Their jewelry may be found in high fashion and elite name-brand jewelry stores throughout Europe and the United States. They have frequently received recognition awards for their designs and superb qualities of amber; their works are also exhibited in museums. Our sole-source supplier is a registered member of the American Amber Association of amber industry professionals dedicated to promoting amber and other organic gems while maintaining the highest ethical standards among its members. Its members abide by a code of ethics, and when dealing with a registered professional, you can be assured you are dealing with an amber professional of the highest caliber. I am an active registered member of the American Amber Association. As a matter of fact, our supplier actually created and governs the association!
Brand New, Never Used Graduated Amber Bead Necklace. 100% Genuine and Natural, Baltic Sea "Black" Amber Gemstone Graduated Necklace With Hand-Carved Toggle Closure.
- Symbolism: The Color of Black Gemstones symbolize self control and resilience. Black stones have protective energies in the sense that black is the absence of light, and therefore, can be used to create invisibility. Black is one of the most misunderstood colors. A black tie dinner is formal and elegant. Women can wear that "little black dress" to the black tie dinner. Yet the bad guys wear black hats. Yet, Native Americans thought black was good because it was the color of soil, which gives life. Black is not necessarily a color; it is the absence of all color. When people speak of opposites, it is usually in terms of black and white. Black, and its opposite white, represents polarities similar to the yin-yang philosophy, both polar opposites must exist to have complete balance. Black absorbs all aspects of light. While white reveals, black conceals. It has come to mean hidden, it is linked to the unknown or the unseen. In times of uncertainty black contains the energy of the threatening unknown. In a positive state, black is seen as a restful emptiness into which anything may emerge and disappear once again. It is also mysterious, providing a sense of potential and possibility. Amber assists the body in letting go of the past and creating anew; Brings forth a carefree, sunny disposition. Promotes good luck, success, and dissolves oppositions. Activates a desire to serve humanity, stimulates the intellect.
- Design: Amber Bead Gemstones #4; Calibrated Ovals to Semi-Flat Ovals, Graduated Design, Hand-Scored Surface, Natural Baltic Sea "Black" Amber Mixed With Prehistoric Volcanic Ash, Hand-Knotted Separations, Surface Matted Finish, Hand-Carved Toggle Closure.
- Color/s: Grayish-Black, Matted.
- Gemstone Shape/Cut: Oval to Semi-Flat Oval Beads, Graduated, Calibrated, Cabochon-Cut.
- Gemstone Grade: Premium, High Quality, Class 1A Succinite (There is no Known Grading System For Amber).
- Measures: Graduated Amber Gemstones Approx. Just Over 7/16" Wide X Just Over 9/16" Long to 5/8" Wide X Just Over 13/16" Long.
- Size/s: Approx. 18.75" Long.
- Weight: Approx. 50.8 grams.
- Features: This Beautiful Hand-Cut Graduated Necklace is Superbly Hand-Crafted With a Surface Scored Amber Finish Background. This Hand-Labored Creation Features Genuine, "Black" Amber Gems as its Focal Point...Just Gorgeous! The Amber Stones Feature Calibrated, Cabochon-Cut Oval to Semi-Flat Oval Beads, Which Best Display the Natural Beauty of These Stones. Each Individual Bead is Separated With Hand-Tied Knots. These Naturally Fossilized Amber Stones Were Directly Derived From the Russian Sambian Mines at the Kaliningrad Oblast in the Baltic Sea. Normal Appearing Honey or Cognac Colored Amber Has Merged and Fused With Prehistoric Volcanic Ash; a Natural Blending of Two Materials to Form the Overall "Grayish-Black" Color Appearance. The Gemstones Are Hand-Cut, Hand-Shaped, and Surface Scored to Bring Out Their Matted Appearance. Additionally, the Necklace is Constructed With a 100% Hand-Carved Toggle Closure Created Using "Black" Amber Pieces. This Design is a Rare, One-of-a-Kind Fossilized Work-of-Art That Exudes Pride of Ownership! Retails For $750.00 and Higher in Fine Name-Brand European Shops and Boutiques.
About Amber and Baltic Amber: Amber is the preserved resin of prehistoric trees that grew tens of millions of years ago. Often classified as a semi-precious stone, this hardened organic substance has over 200 descriptive names, over 65 shades of colors, a variety of transparencies, and no one piece is ever alike. Despite such a large range, the most common specimen is a golden-brown and semi-opaque object that will infrequently contain inclusions. Inclusions in amber are classified as anything embalmed (preserved) in the hardened resin. Amber, which is a fossil itself, is often held in the same class as semi-precious stones as turquoise and jade because of its ornamental uses however, amber is not mineralized. Most amber existing today is approx. 30-90 million years old. Amber has a deep fascination for people both as a gem and as a chance to look back into the past with remarkable clarity. Its warm lustrous touch beguiles us and the remarkable inclusions sometimes found within captures our imagination. Amber (resinite) is the common name for fossilized tree resin from ancient forests, which has been appreciated for its inherent and interesting mixture of colors and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Amber is not produced from tree sap, but rather from plant resin. Sap, is fluid circulating through a plant's vascular system, while resin is the semi-solid amorphous organic substance secreted in pockets and canals through epithelial cells of the plant as a protection mechanism. This aromatic resin can drip from and ooze down trees, as well as filling internal fissures, trapping debris such as seeds, leaves, feathers, and insects. The resin becomes buried and fossilized via a natural polymerization of the original organic compounds. Volatile terpenes in resin evaporate and dissipate under natural forest conditions, leaving nonvolatile terpenoid fractions to become fossilized if they are stable enough to withstand degradation and depositional conditions. The fossil resin becomes incorporated into sediments and soils, which over millions of years change into rock such as shale and sandstone. Having taken tens of millions of years to process, polymerization is all but complete and all of the potentially damaging volatile oils have dissipated to eventually produce fossilized amber. Copal is resin that has matured only to the point of hardening, but despite similar appearances to amber, it has only undergone partial polymerization and still contains volatile terpene oils. Copal should never be used in conjunction with the word Amber; Copal is NOT true Amber, but an immature resin! Although a specific time interval has not been established for resin to become amber, the majority of amber is found within Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentary rocks (30-100 million years old). The presence of insects in amber was noticed by Pliny the Elder (23-79AD) and led him to the correct theory that at some point, amber was in a soft liquid state to cover bodies of insects. Hence, he gave it the expressive name of succinum (gum-stone), a name still in use today to describe succinic acid as well as Succinite, the term for Baltic Amber. Tibetans had perhaps the most beautiful name for amber; po-she, which meant perfumed crystal. Baltic amber contains 3%-8% Succinic acid, which distinguishes it from all other types of amber. Succinite's hardness is between 2.0-2.7, which is greater than many other fossil resins and a specific gravity varying from 1.05 to 1.10. It can’t be affected by alcohol, is not very hard (hard as a fingernail), it will rather turn black and burn than melt, it is warm to touch and produces static electricity if rubbed, and its luster is resinous and appears transparent to translucent to opaque. Commonly, cloudy and opaque amber is known as "bony” amber, owed to its millions of minute bubbles inside. There is no one tree responsible for producing Baltic amber, studies show it's closely related to broad-leafed conifers of the Araucaria, in the family Araucariaceae. Amber is found all over the world however, the largest deposits are from the Baltic Sea region and the Dominican Republic, being the second largest producer. Industry professionals agree the best specimens used for gem quality amber gemstones are collected from the Baltic Sea. About 90% of the world's best amber is extracted from the Sambian mines located at the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia in the Baltic Sea. Pieces of amber torn from the seafloor, known as the “blue earth” are cast up by currents and waves, and collected by hand, dredging or diving. Elsewhere, amber is mined in open works and underground galleries. Amber occurs in so many colors it compliments almost any color of clothing, it can also have smoky, or opaque swirls, or even have iridescent microscopic water droplet inclusions trapped within. Descriptive words include: banana, ivory, butter, milky, lemon, butterscotch, sunny, greenish, custard, honey, cognac, molasses, orange, brown, cherry, and black. The rarest colors of natural amber are blue, black, green, cherry, white, and "kumst" (sauerkraut with brownish-yellow clouding). Amber’s golden transparency lends it a quality which even diamonds do not share. The fascination and attraction to amber, with its earth-tone colors in jewelry, continues to soar in popularity today. Tree resin has to endure and undergo several stages of processing over millions of years, before it becomes Amber. The facts these natural processes caused a once liquid resin to harden so much it can be ground, cut, and polished is astonishing! Natural Baltic amber is a living stone, having not yet ended. Care and Cleaning Tips: Following some handling rules will keep your amber jewelry enjoyable for many years to come. The #1 Rule: Always apply your perfume and hairspray before putting on your amber jewelry (Last On, First Off). 2. Avoid all liquids, strong solutions, household cleansers, soaps, detergents, jewelry pastes or liquid cleaning solutions. 3. Do Not Use ultrasonic or steam cleaners. 4. Avoid exposure to extreme hot or cold or sudden changes of temperature and prolonged exposures in direct sunlight. 5. Never wear jewelry during strenuous exercise or physical activities. 6. Wrap in a soft cloth, store and separate to prevent touching other metals or materials; storing in a dry, cool, and airtight place is best. 7. Do Not Soak or Clean "Black" Amber in Water. 8. Buff and Polish only with dry, clean, soft or flannel cloths. Testing Authentic Amber: To Reduce Listing Space, Testing Methods Are Now Available Upon Customer Request to the Seller. Purchase Assurance of Quality: As each of these designs are intricately hand-cut and hand-shaped, with high attention-to-detail, using natural semi-precious Amber gemstones, each one is a unique, one-of-a-kind design you will cherish for your very own! Makes a Great Gift or Treat Yourself to Start or Add to Your Collection of Fine, Exclusive Amber Gemstone Jewelry Designs. Certain High-Value Items Will Have Required Shipping Insurance to Protect Your Order’s Cost Value Against Shipping That is Lost, Stolen or Damaged by Others and Will Already Be Included in the FLAT Rate Shipping Cost. Please Understand We Should Not Be Held Responsible For Delivery Time Once Your Order Has Shipped as We Are Not the Individuals Delivering Your Package. We Ship Twice a Week on Wednesdays and Saturdays; and Daily During Traditional or Honoring Observance Holidays and the Christmas Shopping Season. USPS Express Delivery (2-Days Guaranteed) From Hawai`i for All U.S. Addresses. Please Feel Free to Contact Us With Any Questions. Live Aloha!
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