Chapter 5: : sky price

Phillips, the auction house established in 1796, is also a century-old store, but only a few hundred years of history, far behind Sosby and Christie, originally did not have the same qualifications.
In Europe and the United States, it is estimated to be only a second-rate auction house, but everything was different in 1999. In November 1999, the auction house was known as the luxury brand. Hey's boss bought £70 million and merged into the world's largest luxury goods group.
Then it took advantage of the opportunity of the previous two major auction house scandals, and invested a lot of money in Phillips. He did not focus on the antiques. He knew that even if he was competing again, he would compete with the two.
Therefore, his main business projects are Impressionist oil paintings, as well as contemporary art and furniture.
Jiang Hai’s main goal is this! After making a phone call in the evening and contacting the office to go to his office the next day, Jiang Hai was relieved and everything had to wait for tomorrow.
Early the next morning, he carried his backpack and came to the office of Phillips.
"Hello, may I help you?" When he walked into the office, a front desk asked him.
"Oh, hello, I called to make an appointment yesterday, my name is Jiang." Nodded to the girl at the front desk.
"Mr. Jiang is it? Your appointment time is 9:00 in the morning. It’s almost gone. I will take you to the third meeting room and wait for it. I will call Manager Zhang down." When I heard Jiang Hai’s words, the girl smiled first. Nodded, then led Jiang Hai to a VIP hall, where he added a cup of tea to Jiang Hai, and then left. After a while, a man in a suit came in from the outside. This person looks like he is about forty years old. However, it was very skillful. When I saw Jiang Hai, I laughed first.
"Is Mr. Jiang? I am the account manager of the Phillips auction house, the emperor's office, my name is Zhang, what can I serve you?" First, he took a hand with Jiang Hai, and the middle-aged man smiled and asked.
"It is like this. I have a group of gems. I want to ask you to help me identify it." When he shook hands with this person, Jiang Hai also explained his own visit. Hearing is to identify things, this person is not unexpected. .
After all, coming here, not to identify, is to auction, and even if it is to auction, it will be identified before the auction, for Jiang Hai's statement, he seems to be normal.
"This is natural, but it is not easy for us to operate the auction house. If it is certified, it will cost a certain fee." Jiang Hai sat on both sides of the coffee table, Zhang said with a smile.
"I know this, I don't know what the standard of charging is." Gently nodded, Jiang Hai had already inquired before coming. The auction house identified that it was naturally charged. In fact, they mainly earned This money, as for the auction, is that it will not open for three years, and it will take three years to open.
"Our auction house appraisal fees are basically two kinds. One is to charge a fee of one percent for the appraisal as an appraisal fee. If it is a collection worth several thousand or tens of thousands, it can be so. The second choice is the fixed appraisal fee, the same thing two thousand." Looking at Jiang Hai, the account manager said with a smile.
"This way, then I choose to fix it!" After thinking about it, although Jiang Hai did not know the value of these things on him, but if there is a baby, the price is more than 200,000, the second is better than the first. It is worthwhile. He has confidence in his own gems. He saw that Jiang Hai has already chosen, and Manager Zhang did not say much. He went out and invited two people to come in.
The two of them are middle-aged people. They seem to be masters. There is also a young man who is estimated to be an apprentice. After coming to the long-term knowledge and handing things, after the two came in, they briefly introduced them. Jiang Hai also put himself in the air. The stone obtained from the hole was taken out.
In the cave, he got a total of 213 pieces of unbreakable stones. He found that the money on his body was not enough. He could only see that the identified stones were worthless. If they couldn’t, they could only sell a batch. Re-identification.
He is now reluctant to plant flowers with snake scales. If you want to come to these stones, you can always appraise the money.
The two prepared the instrument, Jiang Hai also took out some stones and put them on the coffee table, watching the two begin to identify.
"This is a natural crystal, not worth the money, such a big piece, about 3,500 yuan." But soon, this person finished reading the first 'gem', and heard this person, Jiang Hai sighed Tone, crystal, he also knows that it may be worth the money in the past, but since it can be artificially built, the price of natural crystal has not been high. If you don't look at your own piece of purity, it may not be worth three thousand five.
"It seems that I am a little too optimistic." In the heart, I whispered a little, and at the same time, the desktop, those similar to the product, all collected first, since they are all crystal, then there is no need to identify.
The appraisers over there don't care too much. After all, there are too many varieties of gems, too many laymen, and there is no need to hang such money.
A dozen or so pieces have been identified, all of which are natural crystals. Jiang Hai has been somewhat helpless, but fortunately, the price of these crystals is not less than two thousand, which is the earning of the appraisal fee.
"Oh?" But just as Jiang Hai was almost numb, suddenly the appraiser snorted and looked at the jewel in his hand. This time he almost fiddled for ten minutes before he lifted it up. I looked at Jiang Hai.
"Your luck is good. This piece is not a natural crystal, but a natural sapphire. It is about ten carats and has a value of one hundred and twenty thousand." After hearing the appraiser, Jiang Haimin took a look. This time the appraisal fee came out. .
After thinking about it, he put those crystals that have already been determined back into their own bags, and the rest are not sure. A total of one hundred and thirty-two pieces were taken out and piled up next to them. The appraiser couldn't help but smile, but he didn't talk because his job was like this. He earned a commission in this regard.
Identification of a piece of gems two thousand, he made a thousand five, Jiang Hai is also giving him money.
Probably because of the relationship of this sapphire, the appraisers are more careful when they look at it, but the crystal is crystal. If you look carefully, you can see it as a gem. There are one hundred and two in the remaining gem of Jiang Hai. Ten pieces are natural crystals.
Basically, the big ones are all natural crystals, and the rest are seen as gems, which are relatively small.
In a twinkling of an eye, the appraiser has seen a hundred and thirty pieces, except for two pieces that are not seen, only nine pieces are gemstones.
The most valuable piece is the 12.37-carat ruby, estimated at 2.3 million.
There are also two smaller rubies that can be sold for around 500,000.
The remaining three emeralds add up to about 1.6 million.
The two sapphires, together with a value of 400,000, were only one hundred and six hundred thousand with the original identification.
The remaining three gems, two pieces of sea blue and one piece of gold green, are all fifty karat, or about ten grams.
Together, they can sell for a million or so, that is, the total value of these stones is seven million soft sister coins.
Although there are not many differences between hundreds of millions of people in Jiang Hai’s imagination, seven million is not bad.
While comforting himself in the heart, this trip is worthwhile, and the appraiser there has already identified the things.
In the last two pieces identified, one piece is a natural crystal, worth a few thousand dollars, but the last piece, when you look at it, the appraisers’ eyes are suddenly green...
Looking at the stone, he kept watching. He was watching it for almost half an hour. After half an hour, he looked at his assistant and told him what machine to take.
Soon, the young man came back, holding a lot of machines in his hand, and then the appraisers began to try one by one.
It took about an hour and a half or so, the appraiser took the jewel and didn't talk, so I sat there.
"Hey, is there any problem?" Seeing the appraisers, Jiang Hai asked strangely.
"There is no problem, but if there is no accident, Mr. Jiang, you may have to send it." Look at the hand in the hand of a pink hexagonal gemstone with almost four big fingernails, the apprentice's eyes. It is all in the air.
"I sent it? Oh, I really thought it was a small hair. After all, those gems are worth more than seven million." Self-deprecating smile, in a sense, he did.
"No, there is this jewel. The value of your gems is just like that of the roadside stone." When he heard Jiang Hai's words, the appraisers' eyes began to light up, and they said excitedly to Jiang Hai.
"You stone, I can tell you 99.9%, this should be a block of diamonds, the process of the four C is the ultimate, the net weight of 31.6 carats, do you know the price of this diamond? The transaction price per carat is 380,000 dollars!" This appraiser, at this time, seems to be unwilling to let this pink diamond disappear from his own eyes, a serious face.
"Three thousand and eighty thousand dollars, one carat? That thirty-six six is ​​one million two million, a beautiful knife?" Hearing the words of the appraiser, Jiang Hai’s brain suddenly seemed to be hammering a bit, a little bit But the appraiser seems to be not ready to let him go.
"No, not only, this pink diamond is a complete pink diamond, 31.6 carats of full pink diamond, this price must be at least twenty times!"
"Oh... I seem to be a little bit, wait, don't talk to me, I want to be quiet..."