Primary and Secondary Varieties of Amber
Baltic amber comes in a wealth of varieties produced by the great differenced in the degree of its translucency and colour – from pale yellow through numerous shades of yellow to white, bluish, greenish, beige and brown. These are among the factors which make amber such a highly desirable and [...]
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After the partition of Poland, a retrogression took place in the economy and culture of Gdansk which, losing the rank of the main port of a large state, became a port of secondary importance of Prussia. Most of the amber workshops were liquidated, and the remaining ones changed into workshops for the mass production of [...]
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Amber is often referred to as the sun stone and has a personality that almost makes you smile when you hold it. Real amber is technically not a gemstone or mineral, but a fossilized sap from prehistoric trees, primarily in Scandinavia and elsewhere around the sea coast. As such, it has a strong connection with [...]
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The simplest and at the same time most subjective evaluation of amber jewelry by a user of admirer is to say whether it is beautiful or not. Contemporary amber artifacts produced by artists initially tend to surprise us with their otherness, in the same manner as any other art does, for instance painting or sculpture, [...]
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