The origin of the star lotus world

Chapter 2654 (4)

Chapter 2420 (4)

In that small jewelry shop, the glass display cases were piled high with ornaments of various materials, including several amber pieces. Apparently, some amber bracelets cost one or two thousand yuan, which translates to tens of yuan per gram.

The shop has a small amber bead bracelet priced at 1,000 yuan. The shopkeeper said that if I buy it, he can give me a discount. The small amber necklace is paired with several small beads made of 18-carved gold. Even though the total weight of those small gold beads is only 0.102 grams, they are still valuable.

I heard that the amber jewelry in the shop is priced per piece. The price per gram varies for each piece, with larger beads commanding higher prices. I've heard that some larger amber bracelets can cost three or four thousand yuan.

The author has been wearing an amber bracelet for many years and would like a professional to take a look, as they want to know if it has the potential to appreciate in value.

The shop owner said she found this amber bracelet online; high-quality amber depends on the quality of the resin and its evenness. The amber bracelet you're wearing is clearly of average quality; the beads are of very low quality, and although it has a hundred beads, it only costs a few hundred yuan.

I asked if the amber bracelet would appreciate in value if I continued to wear it for many years. I saw online that some old amber pieces are said to be very valuable.

The shop owner said it was unlikely to appreciate in value because the amber beads in that particular string were of low quality. High-quality amber only appreciates in value after years of handling and wearing. She suggested looking at the amber bracelets in the shop, with their beautiful, evenly distributed golden beads. Only good quality items have an appraised value. If they find good amber or jade with unique characteristics, the shop can appraise and buy it back. Ordinary jewelry, no matter how much it's handled, will only fetch a modest price and may not be bought back.

The author did indeed buy that amber bracelet through a live-streaming app. It didn't cost much, and it was good enough that it was genuine. Thankfully, it was real, and I thought it was alright, except the beads were uneven and the amber wasn't plentiful, so it wasn't high-end—that was definitely true. After wearing it for many years, the amber beads have changed color, some turning brownish. I even thought it might appreciate in value, but that was just wishful thinking.

Once, I went to a pawnshop to inquire about the recycling of precious metals and high-end jade.

The author showed the shop assistant their jade and amber bracelets, asking if they had any resale value. The staff glanced at them, didn't want to look any further, and simply said the quality was too poor to be resold; they could only keep them for personal wear or preservation. Some pieces could be upgraded by adding gold beads.

That time, at that small jewelry shop, I had a professional look at the twin baroque pearls I was wearing, along with citrine beads, which I was using as a bracelet, and to check the quality of the rectangular pearls.

The shop owner said that the nacre layer on those few beads was not thick and the quality was average. Although her shop did not have baroque pearls, it had large pearls. If you bought a whole strand, the price per pearl was only seventy or eighty yuan. If you bought a single large pearl, it was one hundred yuan.

The shop had white, purple, and champagne gold pearls, in medium sizes, but they weren't very round. I couldn't negotiate the price down, so I bought a teardrop-shaped pearl for forty yuan—the cheapest small single piece in the shop. The shop also had loose beads for accessories, some costing tens or even a couple hundred yuan each; I might look there again later.

Hua Zhu said she believed that the ornaments her master chose in the mortal world were all good. Regardless of their resale value, those ornaments were all beautiful.

Tongyang said he has hobbies and an aesthetic sense. For some items, he doesn't care about recycling; as long as they look good, that's fine with him.