Honey Amber Collection: The most recognizable color of amber, it can be found in almost every key location where amber is mined: Africa, South America, New Zealand and Eurasia. Depending on location, the age of honey amber ranges from 1-90 millions years old. In essence, honey amber is a time capsule preserving compressed organic matter, such as insects, and even little animals. Known as the "Window to the Past", honey amber tells many fantastic stories from long, long ago. Cognac (or Honey) is the color most commonly associated with the amber gemstone. When people think of “the color amber”, it is the stone of cognac, or honey, amber that is described. If you were to mix together all the colors of amber on the same palette, you will produce a nice cognac shade. It is a hue often found in golden sunsets of the summer. Inclusions show up very nicely in this shade of amber. Often times, stones are selected merely on how the inclusions reflect light as the jewelry is worn. Amber is a conductor of heat, and provides healing energy if worn close to the skin. The history of amber begins about 90 million years ago in lush green forests in the region of modern day Northern Europe. Trees in these regions produced an aromatic resin, used for protection against woodpeckers, fungus and bark-eating insects. This resin would slowly cascade covering the bark of the tree entrapping organic debris and sometimes live insects along the way. Nearly 40 different species of trees produced this protective resin, accounting for the numerous colors of amber today. Over millions of years, this golden resin produced by pre-historic trees accumulated in many layers in the soil below. With the onset of The Great Ice Age, these forests perished, the soil froze and the fossilization process began creating deposits of beautiful amber. After The Great Ice, melted glaciers flowed on top of the amber deposits, forming the Baltic and North Seas. Due to this geological occurrence, amber found its new home in the sea. The gem spent many thousands of years below 100 feet of sand at the sea bottom. After violent sea storms, various lumps of amber would separate and float among the waves, eventually reaching the shore to be discovered by man. The Aisti people were the first to pick up amber lumps along the Baltic shores 25,000 years ago. Aisti believe that amber was pieces of the Sun that had fallen down to the earth and cherished it as a gift from the heavens. |
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6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Expected a little more..Sep 30, 2011
By jeny
Overall, earrings are nice. They are good quality sterling silver and amber looks great.
However, I wish they were a tad bit larger. My bigger pet peeve though is that they are not as elegant from the back view. When they are actually worn, the earring gets slightly tilted sideways and you can see too much metal and not enough amber. In my opinion quality is good, but design is lacking.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 ear glamorApr 28, 2010
By K. H. Gosch
What I needed to know: size, length,type of stone, type of clasp. These are graceful in design and show off the amber beads well. The clasp design is secure--no worries about catching a french wire on a scarf and loosing the earring.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
A honey of a dealMay 30, 2010
By Torry Carpenter
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The image of the earrings is exactly what you get. Good length. Good weight. Good quality. Overall a great purchase.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 nice earringsMar 12, 2011
By college_student
Even though I checked measurements not as large as I thought they would. But overall like them, dainty and lady even though my preference would be for a little bolder size.
NiceMay 16, 2012
By Jessica T
Shipped and arrived on time. Got them as a gift and they were well received. As other reviews have stated, they seem a little on the cheaper side. They are very light weight and the back of them could have been designed with more thought. How they hang, you can't really see the back so it's not a huge thing. Would not pay the full $60 but on sale they're worth it.
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