Amber Listserv / bubble

[Andrea Paysinger]

I have seen (and may still have some in one of the batches I have in  
storage) pieces with similar bubbles.  Some actually look like they  
have folded where the stuff ran into a barrier and the outer end  
curled back onto the main mass, surrounding an open area and sealing  
in inside.  One large piece actually looked like it had been caught  
in a hand with the fingers cupped.  There were obvious ridges  and  
some woody bits also trapped just under the surface.  I washed this  
chunk out of the matrix, thinking it was just a small piece, about  
the diameter of my thumb, but as I got further into the surrounding  
mass, it got larger and larger as if the resin had pooled at the  
bottom of its run.
It was so unusual I kept it instead of using it for carving.