HIGH VALUE OF AMBER
Five pounds for a pipe mouthpiece! , This was the Bum demanded by a London dealer who was asked the. price of fitting an appropriate amber mouthpiece to a meerschaum pipe. "Amber is the dearest fancy articlo you can buy to-day," said the dealer. "Except for the exhibitions in the Westend London windows, there is vory little unused amber in this country. "Tho reason is that it all comes from enemy shores, and there has been no importation for years. Moreover, there is no real substitute of a satisfactory character."
Amber is a fossil Tosin,. found along the shores of the Baltic and tho. North Sea, but in greatest abundance on the promontory of S_mland. The best qualities aro scut to Vienna for manufacture. Wadere with nets drag tho seaweed ashore and disentangle the amber from it; and at one time wholesale dredging was carried on by tho great amber merchants of Konigsberg.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1919, Page 10
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156HIGH VALUE OF AMBER Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1919, Page 10
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