Antique Ovoid 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 a soft gemstone, easily 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.
Interestingly, Tibetans also much like opaque yellow Amber, and are not at all taken with any other Amber colour.