Best of the Month January 2026!

Hello Premium Subscribers! All 10 of us! Soon there will be 10's of us! This is our first month since launching the premium subscription. We have recapped some incredible sales for you, and also there's lots of news. Let's start off with the best pieces of the month. Scroll down to see news and website statistics!

Piece #1: A leafcutter ant

This ant and leaf speaks for itself! Just look at it! We've never had anything like this before. It's an ant cutting a leaf, and still hanging on. The whole situation preserved perfectly. It's quite a nice piece. Burmese amber, 100 MYO. Good take Frogger!

The leaf is preserved in museum-grade detail.

Piece #2: A wasp caught in a spiderweb This wasp is has been struggling in a rough spot for a long time. Trapped in spiderwebs, and then trapped in amber! What are the odds? It's a unique capture.

Piece #3: Scorpion with strange jaws This scorpion, that user Opal_Joe snagged for only $55, is a gem with a secret. The scorpion's mouth is extremely clear, and formed quite unusually. Take a look at this close up and see what you think

Piece #4: A Pseudoscorpion bracelet It's about darn time we got some pseudoscorpions in a bracelet! Finally This bracelet has a clear pseudo in a yellow cab. This is Dominican amber, 20 MYO.

Piece #5: A wasp bracelet Wasps are not the most popular species, but they are among my favorite. Some of them get preserved in perfect detail, like this one. Of course we had this one made into a bracelet, which makes it wearable. Talk about a conversation starter! This piece is museum-grade clarity. Even to the naked eye, it looks like it could jump out and fly away!

Piece #6: A spider eating an ant This spider and ant are a classic scene. Spiders eat ants all the time, but we rarely get them together in amber. Any time you have species interacting in amber, we call that "action." This Burmese amber inclusion has some A-Grade action. The ant is especially clear under the microscope.

Piece #7: A broken snail shell This shipment was dubbed "The shipment of the snails" for a reason. We had a lot of them. This one was clearly smashed, but got preserved in museum-grade detail nonetheless. I thought it was quite unique.

Piece #5: An enhydro inside a spider This piece went to me, Mr Amber Bugs! This spider has a bubble inside his cephalothorax. And it moves!!!! It's a moving enhydro! We've never had anything like this before. It is a small piece, best appreciated under a microscope. But i just had to take it.

Piece #9: A beetle trapped inside an enhydro This piece is a beetle, trapped inside a bubble, with water and moving enhydros all around him. Dominican amber. It's a fantistic piece. It's in a bracelet as well, that Frogger got. This piece is very close to being a holy grail piece. Our holy grail piece would be Burmese amber, a tick inside an enhydro. And that tick having fed on a dinosaur before being captured. One day my friends, one day...

Piece #10: A clear wasp Again, Frogger snagged a piece that the smithsonian would be jealous of. This wasp in Burmese amber is as clear as it gets! This guy would make the cover of "Amber Magazine" if such a thing existed. Rugged, handsome, wasp in burmese amber!

Piece #11: A scorpion with bubble This scorpion has a bubble inside of the stinger of it's tail! Look at the microscope shot. The bubble is very interesting because it shows the stinger's anatomy. This is the second time we've seen one. Sometimes you can also find a small crystalline structure at the tip of the stinger. I need to research this, but i think the scorpion has a liquid and a crystal that it combines the moment before stinging something. That combination is the poison.

Piece #12: Antlion This piece has a rare species, an antlion, and a lot of other things too! But it's the rare antlion that made the list. This antlion has very beautiful antennae. Look at the microscope picture to see. It's antennae are long and fuzzy. Great piece!

Piece #12: Clear mosquito This is one of the prettiest mosquitoes we've seen in a while! Definitely fit for the cover of "Amber Magazine" haha. The strange thing about this one is the long, double proboscis that extends from his head. It even has a third strange thing coming out of it. Maybe it tried to drink the amber?

Piece #14: Worm with mouth Now this is a first! Worms are rare, but a worm with it's mouth open! My lord! What detail! This could be one of the best specimens of worms that exists in the world today! It looks almost like it has a personality. Look at this beauty!

AMBER NEWS:

1) We designed a new bracelet style for bracelets with insects in Dominican amber. It has been a huge success! The bracelets came out beautifully. Check out Piece #4 on this list to see an example. We currently have 300 more bracelets in production

2) We have acquired 2 new Burmese amber suppliers. 1 of them gave us some incredible pieces at good prices. He is a amber polisher living in Mitkyina (The town that is the source of Burmese amber) and he polishes pieces and gives us all his best finds. In other words, a supplier who is straight at the source! We are very happy with him and will be buying more pieces in the near future.

3) We have 7 Kilos of blue dominican amber in the mail. Polished windows pieces. Very excited.

4) We have a shipment in the mail from Myanmar that is due to arrive next week. It has 20 silver rings from a new silver shop it Mitkyina, Myanmar, the city that the amber comes from. This shipment also includes over 400 insect pieces (at the $55 range) and approximately 10 museum grade pieces that will be over $500 each when they arrive. We are very excited.

WEBSITE STATISTICS:

Below is a graph of our website visitors over the past 365 days. As you can see, what have had marked improvement over the year. There are 3 things that are important in this graph:

1) You will see that the first half of the year had a lot less visitors than the second half. It's as if there was a "rising tide" of visitors. That is our ultimate goal, a lot of visitors to the website every day naturally. The way we achieved this "rising tide" was through bloging and uploading a lot of pieces for sale. I will admite though, that at the time, our blogging strategy was weak. Now our strategy has improved quite a bit. Which leads me to the 2nd important thing on our graph

2) The end of the graph (January) marks where we finished our second wave of blog strategy. We wrote high quality posts about the most common questions about amber, and put them in a drop-down menu on our site. So we hope to have another "rising tide" of viewers from this work, but it takes months to start taking effect. So for now we are waiting for our seeds to sprout.

3) Notice the spikes on the graph. That tallest spike represents a viral video we had on TikTok, and it sent people to our website in droves. That is our all-time-high of visitors to the site. The twist is, that our website was unprepared for such a rush, and we didn't have good things for sale in an organized fashion. Can you believe that in that all-time-high of traffic we made $0 of sales??? It just goes to show how important it is to have a good website ready.

4) There are 2 smaller spikes on the graph. Those represent our "Dinosaur Jewelery Drop" and another drop. So we can see that our drops and their advertisements are effective in bringing visitors to the website. We will have more coming soon, but they are time consuming and we are busy! It might be time to hire another employee!

Our website traffic over the last 365 Days - The tallest spike represents a viral tiktok video sending people to our website. One day, hopefully, that will be the norm every day.

AMBER FUN FACT: You could easily own the world's largest amber if you wanted to buy a large raw piece from Indonesia. The current world record of biggest amber is smaller than the pieces that Indonesian amber suppliers offer frequently. The only catch is, that to do this, you're going to have to buy and store a 100 LB piece of amber that's probably really low grade!

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