BALTIC AMBER. OLD AMBER vs NEW AMBER. By Dr.Fatema Palgharwala, Gemologist.
New KERBA or OLD KERBA What is this ? What is the meaning behind this statement? What is KERBA actually? Always been answering these questions and again they are asked by people. So here is your answer. Old KERBA = The KERBA is measured by its age and this age is obtained by various lab tests and results show that KERBA is dated older than 100million TO 200million years ! Yes you heard it right. Now OLD KERBA IS AVAILABLE FOR AUCTION AND SALE by few collectors. It is not available in open market at all. It is extremely expensive and rare. And many such items are held by museums or private institutions. Now understand the importance of this terminology…. In the open market economy there are 99.99% fake items. The many places where shop keepers boast of selling OLD KERBA is actually the PLASTIC COATED COMPRESSED BEADS OF COPAL. WHICH IS FAKE KERBA . The reason why they term it as old KERBA is because they use powder of some KERBA beads to coat these pla...