Amber Listserv / Fwd: Re: heating baltic

[ADAM SPIEGEL]

Irradiation and heating are used in the gemstone business a lot, to change colors of a stone in order to make it more valuable, to enhance clarity, etc.  As for amber, heating of course has been common for centuries.  As for irradiation, maybe those pieces came from around Chernobyl?

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