Amber Listserv / unusual ebay item

[Andy Ng]

Hi all.

That chunk reminds me of certain pieces of Philippine copal. I use rosin on
my violin bow..it's simply rubbed on.

Attached is a photo of unusual products that are NOT on eBay :-D Borneo
Amber toiletries!

Back to the grindstone!

Andy

On Feb 11, 2008 12:53 PM, JOHN FUDALA <ambersafari at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rosin was used to make the belt slip less over the pulleys that powered
> it. You would simply apply a piece of it to the moving belt. It used to be
> called colophony and had many uses in past... remember the huge piece of
> colophony fished off Baltic Sea, that is currently at The Swedish Amber
> Museum?
> 238 kilo (528 lb) and in a shape of a barrel? Most likely fell of a ship
> some time ago;)))
>
> John
>
>
> On 2/10/08, tamber12 at aol.com <tamber12 at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hey, good call!  I wouldn't have thought of that but it makes sense.
> > Out of curiosity, how would they rosin the belts?  Would that be instead of
> > or in addition to any oiling processes?  I'm not good at imagining this
> > process, I only know a bit about coal mining.
> >
> > Tammi
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Edgars <theedgars at shaw.ca>
> > To: amber at ambericawest.com
> > Sent: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 1:38 am
> > Subject: Amber Listserv / unusual ebay item
> >
> >  that may be a old piece of rosin used for belts in the marble mine
> >
> >
> > w
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