Sixty million years ago, the frigid, stormy Baltic Sea was as warm as the southern Mediterranean of today. Stately conifer, giant trees larger than our redwoods, grew in luxuriant splendor on its shores. Then came the glacial ages which swept this floral splendor into oblivion. Though this was long before the age of man, there was an eyewitness who captured evidence of life in that era. And that most dependable witness is Amber–Gem of the Ages–the golden sap of those pre-historic, now extinct trees–the much-prized precious stone hardened by time, temperature and great pressure.
Amber is found in the ‘Blue Earth’ and is a relic of the early Tertiary period. It varies in size from a tiny drop to an 8-inch golden sphere.