Antique Yellow Amber. Origin the Baltic Sea. Amber has always been much appreciated and the Baltic Sea has always been its main source. In colour Baltic Amber ranges from translucent honey through to opaque yellow. Victorian England consumed huge amounts of it, in all shades and  colours, much of it not surviving, for Amber is an organic gemstone, fossilized resin; it is not a hard, tough gemstone, can be scratched, chipped, fractured. Antique Amber in reasonable condition is, quite simply, now rare.
By the late 1800s the English taste for necklaces of opaque Baltic yellow Amber, graduated and handcut in the particular ovoid shape shown in the above strand, saw many of these luscious bead strands produced. They are now very rare, and increasingly costly.
The above English Antique Yellow Amber bead necklace is not of itself an original English Victorian item, though all the Amber beads are of that English Victorian period. Nowadays English dealers in these types of Victorian jewellery gather these yellow Amber beads where they can -usually from broken strands- to create, when possible, necklaces of rare Antique Yellow Amber such as the above.