Thank you for all the good and kind advice. I have been reading the forum for quite a while and have gotten some very good info ( Thanks Jamey for the amber tutorial). I've been around beads long enough to know that there will always be a question, disagreement, controversy as to how old it is, where it came from etc... but this turquoise was a boneheaded mistake and it made me feel very bad. I will keep learning and reading, I've got a collection of some very fine books from Liu, Picard, Allen etc.. that have been a great help and delight.

Thanks to all!

newtoit!