Amber Pendant, old butterscotch.
The most important source world-wide for Amber is the Baltic Sea region. Two basic types, or colours, of Amber come from the Baltic, namely “honey” and “butterscotch”, the honey tending towards translucent, the yellow tending to opaqueness. (Possible, also, to get both transparency and opacity in the the same section, both lovely and interesting.)
Historically, Amber has not always been popular or appreciated. The ancient Romans knew it and wrote about it, and in the Middle Ages in Europe it was much used in prayer beads, or rosaries, but that ended abruptly with the Reformation and a sudden relative lack of emphasis on Mary, and its popularity did not resurface until Victorian England took it to heart, consuming thousands of strands of it, mostly as faceted transparent honey, but also in the form of ovoid bead strands of the somewhat more rare opaque yellow.

The above Amber Pendant was not created as a pendant, but rather as a superfine tactile object. When recently sourced in the south of England it had no pendant fittings; the solid 9ct Rose Gold fittings are Sydney-handmade. The piece is old, but at a guess handcut in the early 1900s, and again at a guess, possibly in one of the Baltic States.