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Techniques for CollectorsAmber question
3rd Jun 2011 20:07 UTCKristi Hugs
I was going to do the salt water test, but these pieces have quite a few holes where the salt water could get into them making the test faulty.
Due to the price (I do not know of the location) and the fact the polish was removed with the acetone, I am thinking this is Copal and not Amber. Thoughts? suggestions? I have attached a pic just for reference.
3rd Jun 2011 20:33 UTCRock Currier Expert
3rd Jun 2011 20:53 UTCKristi Hugs
thanks again! you rock!
4th Jun 2011 14:06 UTCRock Currier Expert
A while back I encountered a sad case where an old guy had been sold a bill of goods about how wonderful this stuff was and he took a great portion of his expendable assets and bought twenty or thirty flats full of pretty big pieces that had been polished to show insect inclusions etc. He became incapacitated because of a stroke and had to go into assisted living. His daughter was frantic to sell the material to raise funds for his care and of course the guy who sold it to him would not buy it back even at a small fraction of what he had sold it for. To make matters worse, much of the material had started to crack which lowered the value still a lot further. A really sad situation.
4th Jun 2011 19:24 UTCDonald Slater
4th Jun 2011 19:43 UTCAndy Givens
http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,55,211056,211056#msg-211056
5th Jun 2011 06:47 UTCRock Currier Expert
6th Jun 2011 05:47 UTCJamey Swisher
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