Vintage Retro FlOWER Bouquet brooch Baltic deals Amber

Vintage Retro Baltic Amber FlOWER Bouquet brooch

Condition: very good

Weight: 15 gr

Brooch: 6 cm x 3 cm

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Baltic amber, called succinite, is the fossilized resin of trees that grew millions of years ago. When trees were injured by animals or weather, they released their sap to heal the wound. As climate changed and natural processes such as heat, pressure, and those of microorganisms took effect, fossilization occurred.

From a scientific perspective, amber is valuable as a material that preserves flora and fauna—insects or plant life that got caught in the sticky resin when it was released from the trees can sometimes be found in pieces of amber, offering insight into the ancestors of today's natural world.

Legends About Baltic Amber
Even though the inclusions found in amber indicated a forest-area origin, early peoples tried to determine the source of amber, with various Greek deals figures theorizing it came from the tears of a bird or the urine of animals. The Lithuanians and Poles cultivated a legend about Jurate, a mermaid who cried for a fisherman she loved—the amber is variously described as her tears or the pieces of her castle carried away on the waves. The Latvian legend comes closest to the true origins of amber. According to the story, a king wanted for himself the necklace of the Gauya bird, made of translucent golden stone. But the Gauya bird, enraged at the necklace being taken from her nest, grabbed the thief and dropped him and the necklace into the sea, where the beads of the necklace drifted apart and sprouted into a forest. But the forest, not being able to reach the surface of the water and the sunshine, cried tears that turned into amber and were washed with the waves onto land.