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Antique "Butterscotch" Natural Amber Necklace, Königsberg c. 1930


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Antique "Butterscotch" Natural Amber Necklace, Königsberg c. 1930
Antique "Butterscotch" Natural Amber Necklace, Königsberg c. 1930
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Amber changes due to light, oxygen and environmental influences. It darkens, but quite slowly. While freshly cut, opaque amber often appears shrill yellow, time gives it an inimitable warm color reminiscent of forest honey or caramel. This is a coloration that cannot be produced artificially. This necklace from the 1930s consists of such an antique, natural honey amber. Each of the olives used here also has an individual and unique structure, marbling and specific coloration, which testify to its authenticity and age of around 90 years. The clear design language of the finely polished olives graduated is typical of the taste of the 1930s and a true classic in the field of necklaces. We have had the olives restrung and the clasp has been replaced so that the necklace can be worn again with ease. Genuine natural amber from Königsberg in perhaps its most classic form.
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Amber is one of the oldest materials known to mankind. Even Stone Age hunters adorned themselves with the primeval tree resin that washed up on the beaches of the North and Baltic Seas. Early on, the stone reached the Mediterranean region via branched trade routes, where it was prized by the Egyptians and Greeks. Even in ancient Rome, the upper classes developed an insatiable hunger for amber: in the first century AD, Emperor Nero sent an expedition to the distant Baltic in order to obtain the gold of the Baltic.
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Antique "Butterscotch" Natural Amber Necklace, Königsberg c. 1930
Prehistoric Sunlight
€ 790.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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