Serial Number: Cane0081
Status: Display
Description:
This hand made semi precious stone walking stick is made of Amber Stone with baltic and measures approximately around 92.5 cm in length. It has a crutch amber stone handle, rubber ferrule and baltic amber stone shaft.
Amber is fossilized tree resin, which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects. Amber is used in jewelry. It has also been used as a healing agent in folk medicine.
There are five classes of amber, defined on the basis of their chemical constituents. Because it originates as a soft, sticky tree resin, amber sometimes contains animal and plant material as inclusions. Amber occurring in coal seams is also called resinite, and the term ambrite is applied to that found specifically within New Zealand coal seams.
