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The book of a famous English gemologist provides modern data on amber and some other fossil resins (copal, cowrie), sometimes used in stone-cutting. Deposits, properties and processing of amber are briefly described, methods for diagnosing fossil resins, including modern physical methods of research, are outlined. It also tells about imitations of amber and ways to distinguish them from genuine stone, about inclusions in amber, its use in medicine. The Baltic amber and its history in material culture from the Paleolithic and antiquity to the Renaissance and to the present day are considered in detail.
For gemologists, mineralogists, geologists, jewelers, museum workers, restorers and collectors.