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Names like "African Amber" can really confuse a new customer for this material. A friend bought a cube bead like the 4 pictured here from Liza Wataghani at the last Gem Faire in our area. He was told that it was African amber. He was very excited to have a big fat amber bead. To learn later, when he showed it to me, that this is an accepted term in the marketplace, and that the material is man-made plastic. The pseudonym is another campfire name - to those who know exactly what it is, a convenient nic-name (also convenient for sellers) but it confuses newbies.
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