Amber Jewelry Sets
Can't Decide between that set of earrings, and that necklace? Why not get both with our matching sets of amber jewelry that are imported directly from Russia. Amber is widely considered the first gemstone to be worn as jewelry, and the artisans who crafted these sets have built upon thousands of years of tradition to provide only the highest quality amber jewelry!
Scientists say that amber (or succinite) is fossilized resin from pine trees that has achieved a stable state through oxidation; the actions of micro-organisms and other processes. If we want to image how everything happened, we should travel some tens of millions of years back to the southern regions of the present-day Scandinavia and nearby regions of the bed of the Baltic Sea (the formation of the Baltic Sea began only about 13 thousand years ago) where conifer forests grew more than 55 million years ago.
In this area of the world the climate suddenly became warmer than it was previously, and conifer trees started to expel massive amounts of resin. The smallest wound on the tree caused excessive flows of resin. This resin settled into the rock strata with the given time period and was soon enough encased by rock, and thus the long process of fossilization had begun.
Millions of years later, people began finding shinny amber beads on the banks surrounding Baltic sea area. The stone is warm to touch and often translucent like a gemstone. Each piece has its own characteristics based on what level of earth it was buried in and the weather. The levels change the color and appearance of each amber piece. Some may be a deep honey color, very dark amber, butterscotch, green, red, orange, bluish, and even black.
Of course, today there is no type of tree which had similar characteristics to those of the past. This makes every piece of amber that we do have from the past very valuable, because, just like fossil fuels, when we mine all of the amber from the earth, there will be no more. Each piece of amber is truly unique as it serves as a link to a distant past.
