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Amber

A fossilized tree resin dating from 100,000 to 3 million years old, typically yellow to brown in colour, and very rarely, cherry red. The most commercial source of Amber is in Northern Europe around the Baltic Sea, with a lot of that material treated to improve its transparency.

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