Golden Age for amber may be over in the Baltics

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Golden Age for amber may be over in the Baltics

May 01, 2008
By Yury Sogis

The color yellow: Amber has long been cherished in the Baltics. Now merchants are facing a crisis.

The time when huddled masses of foreign tourists headed straight from the airport to local gift shops to buy amber artifacts may be coming to an end in the Baltics. Merchants are concerned that amber jewelry sales are declining and complain that public interest toward amber is fading away. “I can’t say that amber sales are sky-rocketing, it’s quite the opposite,” says a manager at the Vilnius Amber Museum. Most buyers are tourists from Italy, Spain, and Japan. Tourists like animal figures c ...

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