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You are bidding on Blue Amber from the Dominican Republic - The only location for blue amber. Amber is the only gemstone warm to the touch. I bought one piece of this amazing rough and will offer just a few finished gems - the rest I'll mount in jewelry myself. Do a search for Blue Amber and you'll see it is extremely rare. Finished stones are almost non-existent and prices run very high.

Blue Amber: Is "Blue Amber" really blue? No. It is not. And yet, it is. Confused? It is a result of fluorescence not solid color. Ultra-violet or violet light is re-emitted as blue or green light attributed to the presence of poly-nuclear aromatic molecules. (Gemology, Cornelius S. Hurlbut, Jr., Robert C. Kammerling) This makes sense, because the best way to test blue amber is placing it under an ultra-violet lamp which intensifies the color to a radiant cobalt-blue. The reflected daylight plays intriguing color tricks on the same smoothed and polished gem of natural Dominican blue amber as you hold it in your hand and gently move it around. Dominican blue amber is not blue when the light shines through it, but when the light shines on it and best in Sunlight. Some love the strong, startling blue intensity. Others prefer the clear, clean, yellow amber with a discrete hue of blue... and some in between. Blue amber is blue, but not the way you might think. The pieces in the picture below have been photographed in daylight, half on a white surface, half on a black surface. The difference is clear. When sunlight strikes the Blue Amber on a white surface the light particles pass right through and are refracted by the white surface. Result: the Blue amber looks almost like any other Dominican amber, only with a light blue hue. But, in the other half of the picture, it is much different. The light can't refract off the black surface, so it is the Amber that refracts, and the hydrocarbons in the Blue Amber turn the sun's ultraviolet light into blue light. The result is the famous blue glow of Blue Amber. This effect is only possible with Dominican Blue Amber pieces graded within the Blue Amber category. Any other amber (like Baltic i.e. and other) will not display this phenomenon at all. And other Dominican amber will show this refraction only in concentrated UV light, but not in natural light. In the case that you have inclusions in the piece of amber, they will have the same effect as the black  background. Pictures are taken with a regular digital camera in sunlight. Picture below is an example picture - the stones are not included in the auction.

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