"Gao Yan value" small class jewelry rises

South Red Agate continues to raise prices by 30% but fakes 猖獗

Consumption trend

What jewelry is most popular in 2015? Look at Liu Xiaoqing's neck and know that before 2014, Dai was wearing jade, and at the end of 2015, it was replaced with a huge beeswax. At the end of 2015, the Guangdong Pearl River Delta Jewelry Market, which is known as the world's important jewelry production and sales base, has quietly changed: the jade market continues to bottom out, and small-scale jewellery has sprung up: South Red, Blue Perth, and Pelican prices continue to rise; Up-and-coming talents such as garnets and corals have also been favored by consumers and investment institutions. The industry believes that: the jade market is sluggish, resulting in capital outflows. Under the trend of funds warming up, small-scale jewellery is likely to become a sought-after object, but collectors are not recommended to buy blindly, beware of counterfeit goods.

South red

Guangzhou market, 30% of sales of South Red

Guangzhou Daily reporter visited Kangwang Road Jewelry Wholesale Market. South Red Agate and Amber Beeswax became the trading scent of shops. Among the 10 shops, about 2~3 sell Nanhong, and 3~4 have amber or beeswax sales. In the past years (until the beginning of 2015), the main products of similar stores are jade jewelry such as jade and Hetian jade. A large number of old merchants of jade are busy "changing" at the end of the year, eagerly "stacking" to deal with the middle and low-grade jade accumulated in their hands, and replaced them with amber, south red and colorful treasures with bright colors and high "value". .

Mr. Lin, the old merchant of Tsuen Wan Plaza, said: “Nanhong’s current sales are better than amber. Northern retailers prefer Nanhong, and there are more purchases. There are still people who hoard semi-finished products and have a few million yuan. We estimate that A 'red' red five-year rule, the South Red market began to become popular from the end of 2012, and can also be 'red' for two years." In his neighbors' shops, Nanhong's 2015 increase was less than in 2014 and 2013. But also higher than 30%, the price of beaded necklace is between 5000~12000 yuan/string; and the better one is “persimmon red”, the texture is like Hetian jade, the color is similar to bloodstone, the price of beaded necklace is higher than 50,000. Yuan, 10 times more than ordinary jewelry products.

Recommendation: Due to the skyrocketing price, the phenomenon of ordinary agate posing as a red agate is more common. Identification method: Under the bright incandescent light, the real south red agate surface can see a small particle of cinnabar, while the ordinary agate does not; the south red agate surface has a warm and smooth jade luster, while the ordinary agate has No. Lin Zhaohui of Guangdong Huayou Auction Company introduced that in the auction market, “Old Nanhong” (such as the DPRK officials of the Qing Dynasty) is more valued by collectors, with high cultural value and superior texture, which deserves the attention of “novice”.

amber

Lanpo Baipo has skyrocketed to hundreds of thousands of yuan

Compared with the South Red Agate, the “fame” earlier amber beeswax appeared in 2015 with the phenomenon of “water overflowing”: the price of the Hualin jade market in Guangzhou showed a trend of polarization, the ordinary Baltic yellow brown amber The price fell back and the price dropped from 10% to 20% in December 2015 compared with the same period in 2014. However, the price of the rare varieties, Dominican products Lanpo and Baipo has been rising all the way, and the price per gram has risen. Up to 1,500 yuan or more, of which 50~60 grams of semi-finished products with a small amount and beautiful colors, the price is as high as 200~300,000 yuan/piece.

Moreover, compared with the Hetian jade and the ordinary jade market, the amber trade is still booming and still in the “rise period”.

Suggestion: The current aesthetics of amber products differ greatly among collectors, but Director Xiang Xianyi of Guangdi Jewelry believes that: First of all, don't blindly worship old beeswax and white pebbles. Wax is organic jewellery, which will change color over time. The old "goods are not necessarily so good; white peper is the smallest density of amber, the color saturation is low, not so consistent with the world's jewelry aesthetics.

In addition, amber fraud is more than southern red, jade. The so-called "Middle East beeswax, African beeswax" are mostly deceptive products; remanufactured products and resin fake beeswax are also more common, and sometimes retailers are deceived.

Identification method: The red acupuncture tip close to the natural amber will give off a distinct pine scent, and the texture of the natural amber will not be too uniform. Natural amber will rarely have high saturation colors such as blue, pink, and willow green.

砗磲

Not the more white the more valuable the money

It is a shell of marine mollusks. Although it belongs to China's “local products” jewelry with a long history and culture, it was little known before 2015. Since 2015, it has been sought after by institutional investors who are warming up. Become a rising star in the small jewelry market. In Guangzhou Kangwang Road Wholesale Market and Panyu Jewelry Wholesale Market, it is sold on the same platform as organic jewellery such as coral and pearl. It is also favored by retailers in many provinces in the north. Mr. Luo, a merchant in the Hualin jade market, said: “It is best to sell 砗磲 necklaces and bracelets with prices between 500 yuan and 2,000 yuan per piece, which is obviously more popular than low-grade jade, and this price is more than 3 years. It has risen at least 4 times before, and the increase in 2015 is above 100%."

Recommendation: From the statistics of the Guangdong Geology Bureau Jewelry Testing Center and the Guangdong Gold and Silver Jewelry Testing Center, there are also many counterfeiting incidents: ordinary white shells pretend to be the most, and secondly, plastic counterfeiters are also emerging. The former is difficult to identify, especially when the enamel is processed into jewellery, the common method is difficult to confirm; for this reason, it is not recommended for collectors to collect jewelry blindly, and it is recommended to collect 砗磲 ornaments or 砗磲 semi-finished products, which is better. Earthworms with irregular patterns and more obvious textures are generally more collectible; shells are white, white is very common, and the whiter ones are more valuable.

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