Tests to Determine Amber Authenticity:

Smell Tests

Smell tests are effective because natural amber has a specific smell, which is difficult to obtain when producing falsifications. After heating real Baltic amber diffuses a specific delicate fragrance of pine-tree resins. Odours, diffused by falsifications: copal - smell of "sweet" resins, all others - smell of burnt plastic.

About amber

Amber has been started to be used in the Paleolithic Age. Chaste looking necklaces and bracelets had been passed from generation to generation as a great value in Balts families. 

Succinic acid

The main healing material of amber is succinic acid, which helps the body to fight against diseases. The mentioned material is present in the body of each living creature (human, animal, plant).

• Great Italian violin masters (Stradivari, Gvarneri, Amati) used to lacquer their masterpieces with lacquer with amber additive. By the way, the violinists say that strings sound better, when rubbed with amber...

Amber and succinic acid have been used in medicine and pharmacology since ancient times. Amber has been used to relieve ear, dental, eye pain.

Baltic amber is usually yellow, bright yellowish. Its colour varies from white, yellow to brown, red. There is also green, blue, gray, even black amber.