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Hi all! First post here, spent some time reading the tips and rules so I hope I got everything right, but if I didn't please let me know. I just got this specimen from a seller in Indonesia, who claimed it was Sumatran blue amber. The 'blue' part is skeptical, though it does seem to fluoresce a bit in direct sunlight. I've run all the amber tests I am capable of doing (the rub-and-smell test, the static test, scratch test, black light test, acetone test) and for all intents and purposes it does seem to be amber, but I noticed last night when I was playing around with the black light, the amber retains a very faint residual glow after the black light is turned off, and the glow fades rapidly. I can't seem to find any resources online about whether this is normal or not, so I figured I should ask here. The pictures below are three of the amber piece in standard room lighting, one of the residual glow, and one of the UV fluorescence (I removed it from the scale paper as the white was washing out the blue fluorescence on-camera).
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Hand sanded this small piece of Sumatran cloudy amber after work this morning. Once I was done, I was checking it out with my loupe & found a small inclusion. Not exactly sure if the amber is called cloudy or not, but it LOOKS cloudy & those clouds are kinda beautiful. As for the inclusion, not sure what type of bug it is, but I came awful close to destroying it without realizing it. Just plain dumb luck I stopped when I did. Indonesian black (Sumatran) amber, 28mm long with the bug being just barely 1mm in length. The amber itself is a dark cognac hue.
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