Recent years have witnessed growing interest in amber especially in amber jewelry and ornaments.
Apart from amber-ornamented jewelry, big-size objects are manufactured more and more often, such as caskets, candlesticks, mugs, pictures and also furniture. Amber has also found its way into churches. For example, a monumental amber altar decorates the Church of St. Bridget in Gdansk. The project is comparable to the historic spacial arrangement known as the Amber Room.
History of amber began from trees, 40 million years ago. Trees responsible for creating amber were pine trees which excessively secreted resin. Widely used infrared technique in current studies on amber shows clear differences between the resin of contemporary pine species and the Baltic Amber. The reasons for increased resin discharge have not yet been unambiguously explained either. It is believed that resin exudation increases during warm and humid weather and amount of resin exuded in forests is larger the closer they are to the equator. It is also believed that changes in resin exudation might have been caused by volcanoes known to be active in North Sea area. However, the observation of particularly strong resin exudation of various trees even today, leads to the conclusion that rich amber deposits could have been formed from tress naturally exuding resin as their living process.
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