People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — mber Is Seerce, and Nobody Care[?]. [ARTICLE]

Amber Is Scarce, and Nobody Cares.

Genuine amber is becoming scarcer every year, and it will not be long before a real amber cigar-holder or pipestem will be a rarity and a luxury. The true amber is a fossil gum, which was produced in large quantities by trees having a resinous sap, which flowed down the trunks and gathered in masses at the roots. It is found in the ground in marshes and other places where forests flourished in former times, and is also secured by dredging. The Baltic and Black Seas and the German Ocean formerly produced it in considerable quantities, but their supplies are now pretty much exhausted. There is a [illegible] [illegible] satisfaction, however, in knowing that the imitation amber is just a good as the real.