I often hear or read someone else's opinion on amber products, they say, grandmothers may like beads, pendants and earrings, there is nothing beautiful in amber.
I will not say that such statements as a resident of Kaliningrad (for amber is one of our business cards) is outraged. It's just that those who consider amber a "grandmother's version" and tasteless have not seen beautiful jewelry made from them. It is a fact!
Few examples in the photo from the recent exhibition "Amber of the Baltic", which took place in the exhibition complex "Baltic-Expo".
In the photo above - ivory amber (also called white amber). Here it is considered one of the most expensive varieties of amber. It takes on white and milky shades due to the presence of microscopic air bubbles. This color takes several million years to form.
Pendants with white amber and a haze inside in an original frame of silver and gold. Many said that amber drop pendants were ugly. But if you look at the photo above, the jewelers' fantasy does not end with drops.
I loved this square pendant with a silver frame. Amber of lemon color with a finely dispersed haze, it gives different shades from different angles and under different lighting: from milky honey to matte lemon. Very interesting!
Pendants with processed amber (the traditional drop shape) of a large fraction and with a decent weight. Therefore, the cost for them is not less than 150 thousand. rubles.
We approached the "landscape". In the professional jargon of amber miners, outbids and jewelers - opaque and nematous amber with natural "stains", reminiscent of painting with landscape motives.
Inclusions are amber, inside of which insects, pollen of plants, moss and everything that got there during the formation of resin and has survived to this day after several million years. Such amber is beautiful, expensive and at the same time arouses great interest among archaeological scientists.
They like to call such amber "dragon's blood". But the natural stone "dragon's blood" from the depths of the Baltic Sea is an incredibly expensive thing, for which Chinese millionaires (the main buyers of amber today) hunt for several years, but fakes.
There is no information about "dragon blood", you don't even have to google it, there is nothing reliable there. At least the jewelers told me so. And what is in the photo above is just transparent amber heated in an autoclave. Nevertheless, even such amber looks beautiful, you won't find such wine shades in luxury lipsticks :-))
Rings with landscape, matt and white amber.
I liked these pendants the most. The case when the work of the master is superior to what kind of amber was processed (expensive or cheap). Amber practitioners say that transparent stone is not a priority. Everyone chases the landscape and the ivory.
Small fraction amber beads (they are called "minuses"). Minus can be collected from a bucket just by walking along the beaches of the Baltic Sea after a strong storm.
It is by them that many people judge that amber jewelry is a grandmother's option.
And some beautiful souvenirs made of matte, landscape and white amber.
I can't help but show this mega scorpion made of raw amber :-)
Do you like amber products? Was it interesting for you to know more about him? If the topic is interesting, put your thumbs up. I will try to persuade several jewelers for an interview. By the way, the topic is semi-criminal, and even untreated amber is now able to counterfeit. And the honey transparent amber familiar to many may turn out to be Colombian copal.
