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Hello, I recently acquired my first trilobite from Oklahoma and am looking to confirm.... do these specimens typically show a soft orange color under a black light? I have every reason to believe that the specimen is 100% genuine but I was slightly surprised to see that the piece gives off a faint but even orange color under closely applied black light across 95+% of the fossil. There are a few spots that give off no glow/color and these appear slightly darker to the eye under normal light. The matrix obviously gives off no color whatsoever under black light. As I said, the seller (which I won’t name here per forum guidelines) is very reputable so I have no reason to doubt that the piece is original/genuine, but just looking to confirm that the faint orange glow is normal as I wasn’t entirely expecting it. I was told that no restoration/color/painting was done to the specimen. Thank you for any thoughts!
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Greetings, I have a few ammonite fossils I would like to treat with varnish to improve their colour and glow but I have red that treating them with beeswax gives the fossils a more natural and less plastic looking, do you have any experience about treating fossils with beeswax? What procedure should I follow please? Thank you very much.