Our company, trades, original amber since 1977. We specialize, recent and rare antique worry beads, made only from genuine amber. Amber, is fossil tree sap, (resin), of ancient trees. It formed about 30-60 million years ago, and became fossil, by the polymerization of the organic compounds of the resin. Amber has been known to man for thousand years. Homer refers to it in the Ulysses (459-464) and the ancient Greek name for amber is electron. Amber was always of great value to man, and for that reason it is used through the centuries to make valuable prayer beads. These prayer beads, are found in many different cultures and civilizations, from the East Mediterranean, to Japan.