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An ant inside Baltic amber Unpolished amber stones. Amber is fossilized tree resin. Examples of it have been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since the Neolithic times, [1] and worked as a gemstone since antiquity. [2] Amber is used in jewelry and as a healing agent in folk medicine.
1962 - Einar Fehrn's son, Søren Fehrn entered the company where he began grinding and polishing amber pieces. 1965 - House of Amber opened its first workshop with one employee; 1980s- The company began focusing on refining the production of amber jewelry. 1988 - House of Amber opened a branch in Gdansk, Poland with 16 employees.
Open pit amber mine in Kaliningrad, showing the lithology of the Prussian Formation, the source rock of Baltic amber. In situ Baltic amber is derived from the sediments of the geological formation termed the Prussian Formation, formerly called the "Amber Formation", with the main amber bearing horizon being referred to as "Blue Earth", so named due to its glauconite content.
The Palanga Amber Museum (Lithuanian: Palangos gintaro muziejus), near the Baltic Sea in Palanga, Lithuania, is a branch of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art.It is housed in the restored 19th-century Tiškevičiai Palace and is surrounded by the Palanga Botanical Garden.
The amber museum was established in Kaliningrad because near the town of Yantarnoye there is the largest (out of the discovered) deposit of the Baltic gem - more than 90% of the world's reserves.
The Amber Road (east route), as hypothesized by Polish historian Jerzy Wielowiejski, Główny szlak bursztynowy w czasach Cesarstwa Rzymskiego (Main Route of the Amber Road of the Roman Empire), 1980 The route from the Baltic Sea. The Amber Road was an ancient trade route for the transfer of amber from coastal areas of the North Sea and the ...