There are alot of fakes out there....don't forget it could still be copal (which is amber minus a few thousand years or so)
Em
There are alot of fakes out there....don't forget it could still be copal (which is amber minus a few thousand years or so)
Em
Hi, I visited the amber museum in Southwold last week. They have quite a few fakes on display there. One point they make is that if you look at amber with inclusions you should expect to see signs of struggle as the insect would naturally try to escape. Well worth a visit.
welsome to the forums maureen , used to go to southwold as a child, never been there since. Shame
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Real Amber can also not be 'real'.
True amber is fossilised, there are alot of amber products being sold that arent actually fossils. The very dull opaque amber is often probably not really a fossil, even in many circumstances this is not a perfect way to judge the purity of amber.
If you can gene splice the DNA from any embedded insects into frog eggs and generate a series of dinosaur eggs then I guess it's not a fake (at least from the Hollywood point of view.)
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