# Securing amber: it dries, it burns, it is light

> Securing amber: not by the heater, not in full sun, document inclusions, store it shock-free.
> Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/bernstein-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion

Amber is light, flammable, and dries out by the heater until the surface cracks. An inclusion is the price and, at the same time, what you capture in the photo before a crack makes it unreadable. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it sits with the small, sensitive pieces.

## Storage

Cool, dark, not next to the heater, shock-free, not in a box that becomes an oven in summer. You do not polish over an inclusion yourself.

## When someone comes

Light and small. It does not lie in the jewelry dish by the door if the inclusion has a price. List: weight roughly, whether an inclusion is visible, proof, photo. The cabinet, once the sum requires it, but not a hot box.


## Häufige Fragen

### Next to the heater?

No. The surface cracks.

### Polish it yourself?

Not over an inclusion. You make it illegible.

### Store it with the jewelry?

Only if the place stays cool and the list keeps it separate.