Are your grandmother's beads real amber?
Try the following,rub amber beads on a wool carpet, then hold the beads over a small scrap of paper. The amber will collect static electricity and pick up the paper. glass will not. Sometimes when amber is rubbed, it smells a bit like pine resin.
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