Butterscotch Amber, an old pair dating back to the mid-1900s and earlier, from one of the Baltic states, probably either Latvia or Poland, sourced through a London dealer specializing in period and antique French and Northern European jewellery. Originally their function was as cuff links, and very special and lovely cuff links they would have been. One of the Silver fittings was broken, the other quite bent. With all due care and craftsmanship, the non-functioning fittings have been removed and replaced, in Sydney, with hand-worked Silver earring hooks, elegantly.
Basically a pentagon in shape, despite it actually being hexagonal, the pair is cut in classic Art Deco form, which probably dates it back to the 1930s.
Historically, for Europe and the parts of North Africa and the Near East controlled by the Roman Empire, the only source for Amber was the Baltic, at least of  the consistent high quality required for the carving of items of jewellery, bowls and statuettes. Amber was valued in China back then, also, but seems to have been sourced only from Burmite deposits in the region now named Myanmar, which Burmite Amber is more or less translucent and always a deep honey-brown colour, never “butterscotch” or yellow.