Interesting facts about amber

• 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...

• There are some data that the crowns of Egyptian pharaohs were decorated with amber.

• Types of amber:

Baltic amber - found along the shores of a large part of the Baltic Sea

Delatynite - a variety of amber found in Delatyn, Ukraine

Blue amber - most commonly is found in the Dominican Republic and highly valued by collectors

Dominican amber - nearly always transparent

Oltu stone - aka black amber

•The rarest is blue amber. This stone colour forms, when pyrites impurities get into resins.

• Baltic amber according to the age is the youngest.

• Amber is found not only in the Baltic countries, but in USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, Austria, Sicily, Brazil, Mexico, etc.

• There are some amber ingots, which weight even 10 kg.