Baltic Amber
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US $37.95
Amber was once given to their relatives to bring health, luck and longevity of users, Roman Gladiators weapons and shields adorned with amber and believed it would protect them in battle, and legend has it that amber was a lot of gold fell and solidified sea gods. Today, designers use Amber Jewelry to become part of this exquisite and unique stone interesting.
Amber occurs in a variety of different colors, not just the usual yellow-orange-brown that are associated with amber itself, a color can range from white, pale or golden yellow to dark brown and almost black. Rare blue colors are amber, green amber and red (known as cherry amber), which are rare and much sort after. When amber is used in jewelry, usually light yellow, brown, red or amber.
Although amber is considered a gem, not a mineral crystal, amber resin is completely organic fossil material of extinct species of pine. Pine resin glue that oozed often catch small insects Such spiders, ants, bees and small insects and some plant material and other small objects to capture the resin flow path, and fossils were made for a long period of time, between 10 and 100 million years. Trees and their resins became covered with sediment and millions of years, ngurtësimit process in amber resin as we know it today day.
For thousands of years Amber has been all kinds of jewelry but now it has become largely different values of incredible fossils trapped inside. (DNA) can be trapped and released from fossil organisms compared to their counterparts today. "Remember Jurassic Park: the movement."
Although deposits of amber occur worldwide, Republic Dominican, Mexico, Alaska, Canada, Burma and Borneo. Amber more value comes from the Baltic region.
Amber has had a history Surprisingly, in 1712 the use of amber has culminated in the realization of a Banqueting room all made of amber panels for King Frederick I of Prussia, that followed it for his son to his deathbed in 1716. subsequently presented to Tsar Peter the Great to commemorate the alliance between Prussia and Russia. Panels were sent to St. Petersburg, where they were packaged and not seen for 24 years. It was not until Catherine the Great Orange appeared again in what was known as the Amber Room was the largest work of jewelry art ever made. It was established in late Palace Tsarskoe Selo in 1770.
It covered 55 square meters and contains about six tonnes of amber and many other precious stones embedded in work of art, diamonds, rubies, emeralds,, onyx jade, to name a few, and pure gold leaf, which was then known as wonder eight of the world.
Amber Room has been removed from German occupation army in World War II. Nazis stole drywall, the packed in boxes and sent back to Germany, and other works of art treasures stolen by Hitler in World War II World, disappeared and was never seen again.
Amber Value is based primarily on their treatment is amber jewelry classified according to their size and beauty, and the presence and type of inclusions. Measures 2-3 on the Mohs hardness scale, meaning it is quite a smooth stone. Amber should not be placed in an ultra sonic jewelry cleaner, as this can damage the stone and should be kept in a pocket by itself to prevent chips from other jewelry more difficult.
As a jewelry designer, I I personally worked with amber, with its rich history and the fact that each piece is unique and no two pieces are exactly alike. So the next time you have found this stone only looks good, you can fall in love with her too.
Baltic Amber: The Living Gemstone Part 3
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