Jianbao life

Chapter 588 Natural Golden Pearl

Seeing the people around him looking at him and others like crazy people, Liu Sizhe said speechlessly: "I said Kunzai, you just picked up a leak of more than 20 yuan, as for laughing like this!"

Duan Kun chuckled and said, "Of course I can't compare with you. You know, this is the first time I've picked up a loophole, and I made nearly 20 yuan the first time. Do you think I can be unhappy?"

Liu Sizhe curled his lips and said, "If it wasn't for Brother Chen, you would have picked up the ass!"

Duan Kun didn't take it seriously, and smiled proudly: "I really have to thank brother Chen for this, but in the final analysis, I'm the one who picked up the leak!"

"Cut!" Liu Sizhe sneered, then turned his head and asked Chu Chen, "Brother Chen, the bracelets just now shouldn't be simple, right?"

Chu Chen took out the bracelet, and said with a hey smile, "Of course there are other things, just look at it."

Liu Sizhe took the bracelet, and after looking carefully, he found that there were many uniform small cracks on the surface of the beads, which looked like crawling marks of small bugs, because glass objects never have cracks, and things made of stone will not appear either. this phenomenon.

In addition, there are obvious abrasions in the holes of the beads, and the texture is obviously not as hard as glass, and the beads are relatively light, so it is certain that this thing is not a feeder.

Since they are not feeders or stone-like things, these beads are likely to be organic matter. What is the bead-like organic matter? The result is ready to be revealed. Liu Sizhe said in shock: "Could it be that these are..."

Chu Chen smiled and said: "Indeed, judging from the fineness and patina, this should be a bracelet from the Qing Dynasty. Although its luster is a little rounded, it is indeed pearl luster, so I think these should be gold bracelets. pearl."
After hearing Chu Chen's answer, Liu Sizhe's eyes widened: "Such a big golden pearl, this... this is also..."

As the old saying goes, "Sevenths are pearls, eighths are treasures". Generally, pearls below 6 mm are not included in the category of jewelry-grade pearls. 7-9 mm are generally loved by consumers, and pearls of 10 mm are rare. Only South Sea pearls and black pearls are available above 11 mm.The higher you go, the rarer the quantity, and the price tends to increase exponentially.

The golden pearl is a kind of South Sea pearl. Because of its huge size, white or golden South Sea pearls of 9-16 mm can be cultivated. Among them, the output of golden pearls is very small, so the price is relatively expensive.

The problem is that the current golden pearls are cultured. Even so, golden pearls over 15mm are quite rare. Besides, there were no sea pearls in the Qing Dynasty. That is to say, this string of 18 golden pearls of at least 15mm They are all natural, and it can be said that they are quite hard-won, and at the same time, it can be seen that the original owner's identity is noble.

It was precisely because of this that Liu Sizhe was so shocked and unbelievable.

Duan Kun murmured: "It's just a string of relatively large pearls. It's a bit expensive, but if you want to buy them, you can't buy them, right?"

Liu Sizhe said angrily: "Of course you can buy cultivated pearls, but the key point is that these pearls are all natural, so go find them and have a look!"

"God...natural?" Duan Kun also had an unbelievable expression on his face.

Liu Sizhe glanced at him and said, "Otherwise, what do you think, there was no such thing as raising sea pearls in the Qing Dynasty."

"Hiss!" Duan Kun gasped: "Then this string of bracelets is worth a lot of money!"

Chu Chen said with a smile: "It still needs to be measured to know, but if all of them are more than 15mm, it is really worth a lot."

Liu Sizhe couldn't wait to say: "Then what are you waiting for, I remember Brother Chen, you have a vernier caliper in your bag, let's measure it now!"

Chu Chen chuckled, and then took out the vernier caliper in his bag. Only after taking this measurement did he realize that these pearls were not completely round, but they couldn't be distinguished visually. After all, they were natural pearls, which was normal.

However, even Chu Chen was quite surprised when he saw the maximum diameter of the pearls. The maximum diameter of these pearls is almost 16.2mm, and the error does not exceed 0.2mm, which can be said to be quite amazing.

Duan Kun said dumbfounded: "How much...how much does this string of bracelets cost?"

Chu Chen shook his head: "It's really hard to say! But anyway, I don't plan to sell it!"
Before 1993, the price of golden pearls in the Xiangjiang market was relatively stable and low. The relatively high-quality small golden pearls were 9-14mm in size, and each pearl was about 300-800 US dollars, or 130-200 US dollars per gram.

However, in 1994, Indonesia was hit by a strong earthquake and tsunami, resulting in a sharp drop in the output of white pearls and golden pearls. The supply of golden pearls was insufficient, which made it difficult for golden pearl wholesalers, especially consumers, to buy golden pearls. Therefore, in the four years from 1993 to 1996, the price of golden pearls skyrocketed by 4%.

And this is the price of 2000-9mm golden pearls before 14. As for high-quality golden pearls with a diameter of 15mm or more, it is too rare to come up with a standard market price.

What's more, the golden pearls mentioned here all refer to cultured pearls, but Chu Chen's string of 18 pearls is all natural pearls, and its price is even more difficult to estimate. If you must give an exact market value, it is lower than Sure, Chu Chen wouldn't even think about it.

However, Chu Chen can be sure that it is difficult to get another string of such natural pearl bracelets in the world. No matter how much money someone pays for such a precious thing, he will never sell it. After all, money is in his eyes. Here, it is just a string of numbers.

Liu Sizhe said enviously: "No, you both missed it. If I don't talk about picking it up today, there must be something to gain, right?"

Chu Chen smiled and said, "Anyway, it's still early, let's go shopping..."

It’s still early, but for the antique business, it’s basically early rather than late. When Chu Chen and the others re-entered the antique market, many people had already scoured the treasures, carrying big and small bags, and were about to retreat up.This also means that there are not many good things left on the market.

Speaking of it, being late also has the advantage of being late. Those leftovers show that everyone is not optimistic about them. The price must be cheaper. If you are interested, it is easy to bargain.Of course, these are just words of consolation.

Stopping and stopping along the way, with Chu Chen present, even though there were not many good things left on the stalls, everyone still bought a few good things at low prices, but the things were not very good, and the value was even greater. Even Duan Kun's pair of incense balls can't compare.

Liu Sizhe was quite satisfied with this. After all, there are few good things in the antique industry, so it is not bad to be able to pick up a few small leaks. He is not an insatiable person, and he does not insist on picking up big leaks at all.

With the harvest, it was almost time to see, so the group planned to find a place to eat, and then went on to visit the city's attractions in the afternoon.

However, just as everyone was walking back, they saw a lot of people surrounded by the door of an antique shop, and the sound of quarreling came from the shop from time to time.Out of curiosity, Chu Chen and the others stepped forward to join in the fun.

The four of them walked to the entrance of the antique shop and found that the quarreling parties were a man in his 50s and a young man in his 20s. Judging from the words of the quarrel, it seemed that they had bought counterfeit goods and returned them. , but what happened in the end, they don't know.

Duan Kun rolled his eyes, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, handed it to a middle-aged man next to him, and asked with a smile in local dialect: "Uncle, do you smoke?"

"Yo, soft, what a smoke!" The middle-aged man was slightly taken aback, then took the cigarette.

Duan Kun chuckled, lit a cigarette for him, and asked, "Uncle, what's going on!"

The middle-aged man took a sip beautifully, and then said: "It's not because of the returned goods."

Hearing what he said, Liu Sizhe felt a little strange: "In our business, unless you are an acquaintance, you usually buy and sell based on your eyesight. Payments are not refundable, and there is no guarantee when you go out. It seems that you haven't heard of how many stores can return goods?"

"It seems that the little brother is also a member of the industry!"

The middle-aged man smiled and said: "Strictly speaking, it is true that we are not in the business of returning goods, but now everyone's sense of the legal system is getting stronger and stronger, and our business is somewhat affected, but it is possible to return the goods. In the region, there is only the shopkeeper Huang of this store, who has eaten the first crab..."

However, according to the middle-aged man's introduction, not everything sold by the shopkeeper Huang can be returned, and there are many conditions for returning the goods.

The first is that before the sale, it is declared that the sale is non-refundable.The second is that it will not be refunded if it is declared that the authenticity of the item is not guaranteed.The third is that the things are real, because if they are expensive, they will not be refunded.Fourth, regardless of whether something is true or false, it will not be returned after it has been processed and cannot be kept in its original state.Fifth, things sold for more than half a month are not refundable.

In addition, if the eye is really eye-catching, even if the customer wants to return the product, he still has to pay a certain percentage of the "eye-eye fee". Specifically, it depends on the value of the item, ranging from 10% to 30%. It costs less to drill eyes.

But even so, compared to other stores, shopping at Shopkeeper Huang will undoubtedly reduce a lot of losses for many customers who have slapped their eyes.

Therefore, as soon as this regulation came out, the business of this antique shop improved a lot, which also made all the school cabinets in the surrounding antique shops think about whether they should also come up with this regulation.

After hearing the middle-aged man's introduction, Duan Kun asked a little strangely: "Since there are such regulations, it's fine to follow them. Why are the two of you still arguing? Could it be that this young man came here to make trouble on purpose?"

"That's right, this young man is still eligible for return." The middle-aged man shook his head.

"If that's the case, let's quit. Could it be that the owner of this store doesn't even care about his own reputation?" Liu Sizhe couldn't understand this.

The middle-aged man chuckled and said, "It's not that shopkeeper Huang deliberately made things difficult. It's really that this young man is careless in doing things and violated the taboo of our profession..."

(End of this chapter)