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Originally Posted by Caitlin  You can also use resins like frankincense, myrrh or the best of all, copal, a Mexican/Guatamalan resin that is probably the best smelling incense ever. You can buy those at the same places. COPAL, look for it. Just smelling it is like a blessing. It is divine. |
Wow, something I know about! Copal is immature Amber. It has to be at least one million years old to be considered Amber. Can you imagine being 775,000 years old and having someone tell you that you're immature? Ha!
Also, hot-point testing is a slightly destructive test to tell if Amber is real. The real stuff has an unmistakable sweet pine resin smell. Of course an appraiser would only do a hot point test if there were an inconspicuous area, say, in a drill hole, to do the testing!
