Yellow Amber Faturan Arabic Prayer Beads

Serial Number: RB 0511

Status: Display

Description:
This yellow amber faturan Arabic prayer bead is composed of 33 tube shaped beads. The bead size measures 16 x 8 mm, 31 cm in length, and weighs 32.9 grams. The shaheed is made of yellow amber faturan beads.

The creation of Faturan is thought to have originated by a chemist. He was melting down the filings left after carving beads from amber and mixed these remnants with other natural resins, such as mastika, frankincense, colophony, and turpentine, to mold individual beads from natural substances. Unfortunately, his original formula has long since been lost.

Bakelite and Parkesine are both synthetic resins named after their inventors. And so Faturan , named after its original inventor, became a brand of cast thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, similar to Bakelite and Catalin, manufactured by Traun Son of Hamburg., developed in the early 20th century, and produced until the 1940s.