Komboloi made of Baltic Amber cut by hand

Amber is a natural material. It is the fossil resin (retsini) of coniferous trees and, especially, of the species Pinites Susinifer (Gepert, 1860). This tree existed in the area of the Baltic Sea, in between the Eocenus and Oligocenus years of the Paleozoic Era (ca 28-54 million years) and is extinct now. The resin entered the ground where it needed millions of years to be fossilized and become stone (amberification).

Nowadays word "kehribari" comes from the arabian name "kahraba". It was known during the Paleolithic and Neolithic Age, since there are foundings discovered and dated. Thalis of Militos in the 7th century B.C is the first one who mentions amber’s quality of producing static electrism, thus taking the name “electron”. During the antiquity years, the merchandise of amber was spread almost throughout the world. Its most memorably famous use was the renowned "Amber Room" created by Frederic I of Prussia in 1701. It was built by big sheet surfaces with very carefully formed amber pieces so that a mosaic was created. In 1717 it was donated to the tsar Peter the Great of Russia and was placed in the old winter palace of St Petersburgh. In 1755 it was moved to the palace Ekaterininsky in Tsarskoye Selo. After the German invasion in Russia in 1941, the pieces were transferred to the castle of Koeningsberg, where their traces are lost for ever.

The amber is a thick and sticky material and it is because of this quality that the entrapment of insects, leaves, stones and even air bubbles are due to. Its colours vary from white (ivory) to almost black. Its most popular shades are yellow and orange. It is a quite light material (slightly heavier than water), it is easily encurved and it is soft (almost having the hardness of our nails), 2-3 grades of the Mohs scale.

The processing of amber can be done in two ways: the one is to give it the shape we want from the original material, as we find it in nature (hand processing). The other happens with the gathering of amber pieces (small or big) and their exposure to an environment of high pressure and temperature. The pieces are united into one and they create a solid material (the Abroid method).

Nowadays, the tree which could give us the "retsini", which –in its turn- could become amber in millions of years (amberification) is the Kori Pine or Australis Agathis prospering in New Zealand and also the Himenaea Pine prospering in East Africa and South and Central America. We need to stress that the term "kechribari" (amber or resin) today is only referred to talk about the fossil resin which lies underground the Baltic Sea ground. We should not misunderstand and use it for any other fossils existing throughout the world (eg St Domenicus, Yemen, Somalia, Malta etc.)

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Code	Description	Bead Diameter	Price (€)	Buy
KX1	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Grey	11-11 mm	204
KX2	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Grey	14-14 mm	360
KX3	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Grey	13-16 mm	468
KX4	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Golden brown	11-10 mm	288
KX5	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Golden brown	10-14 mm	348
KX6	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Golden brown	9-12 mm	204
KX7	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Golden brown	11-12 mm	252
KX8	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Golden brown	12-17 mm	504
KX9	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Transparent yellow	9-12 mm	240
KX10	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Transparent yellow	9-13 mm	330
KX11	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Transparent yellow	13-7 mm	288
KX12	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Orange	9-12 mm	180
KX13	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Orange	11-16 mm	420
KX14	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Orange	10-11 mm	300
KX15	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Orange	14-15 mm	480
KX16	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Orange	11-15 mm	540
KX17	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Orange	14-16 mm	780
KX18	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Golden brown	11-15 mm	660
KX19	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Golden brown	15-22 mm	540
KX20	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Golden brown	16-22 mm	705
KX21	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Golden brown	14-21 mm	660
KX22	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Golden brown	17-15 mm	795
KX23	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Royal	9-10 mm	180
KX24	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Royal	8-13 mm	180
KX25	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Royal	11-14 mm	345
KX26	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Royal	11-14 mm	390
KX27	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Royal	11-11 mm	375
KX28	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Royal	11-16 mm	495
KX29	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Royal	15-17 mm	825
KX30	Baltic Amber cut by hand - Royal	15-15 mm	780

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