Phillips, the auction house established in 1796, is also a century-old store, but it has only a few hundred years of history and is far behind Sosby and Christie. He has no qualifications to compare with each other.

In Europe and the United States, it is probably only considered a second-rate top auction house, but everything was different in 1999. In November 1999, the auction house was bought by the boss of the famous luxury brand "Ouyehe" and was included in the name of the world's largest luxury group, Puyehe.

Then it took advantage of the scandals of the first two auction houses to invest huge sums of money in Phillips. He was not the main focus of antiques. He knew that even if he competed, he would not be able to compete with those two companies.

So his main projects are impressionist oil paintings, as well as contemporary art and furniture.

This is Jiang Hai’s main goal! After making a phone call in the evening and contacting him to meet at his office the next day, Jiang Hai was relieved and everything was going to be tomorrow.

The next morning, he came to Phillips' office with his backpack on his backpack.

"Hello, is there anything I can help you?" When he walked into the office, a front desk asked him.

"Oh, hello, I called to make an appointment yesterday, my surname is Jiang." Nodded to the girl at the front desk.

"Mr. Jiang? Your appointment time is 9 o'clock in the morning, and it's almost done. I'll take you to the third reception room first. I'll call Manager Zhang down." Hearing Jiang Hai's words, the girl smiled and nodded, and then led Jiang Hai to a VIP hall where she added a cup of tea to Jiang Hai, and left again. Soon, a man in a suit walked in from outside. The man looked about forty years old, but he looked very capable. As soon as he saw Jiang Hai, he laughed first.

"Mr. Jiang is? I am the account manager of the Imperial Capital of Phillips Auction House. My surname is Zhang. Is there anything I can serve you?" He shook hands with Jiang Hai first, and the middle-aged man asked with a smile.

"That's right. I have a batch of gems. I want to ask you to help you identify them." When he shook hands with this person, Jiang Hai also explained his own situation. He was not surprised to hear that it was the identification of the thing.

After all, when I came here, I was either here to appraise or to auction. Even if I came here, I would appraise it before the auction. Jiang Hai's statement seemed normal to him.

"This is certainly possible, but it is not easy for our auction house to operate. For appraisal, a certain fee will be charged." Manager Zhang said with a smile while sitting on both sides of the coffee table.

"I know this, I don't know what the charging standard is." Jiang Hai nodded gently. He had already inquired before coming. The auction house had to charge for appraisal. In fact, they mainly earned this money. As for auction, it was a way to open for three years and eat for three years.

"Our auction house has basically two types of appraisal fees. One is to charge a handling fee of one percent based on the appraisal items. If it is a collection worth several thousand or tens of thousands, you can choose this way. The other is a fixed appraisal fee, two thousand in the same thing." Looking at Jiang Hai, the account manager said with a smile.

"That's it, then I'll choose to fix it!" After thinking about it, although Jiang Hai didn't know the value of these things on him, what if there was a treasure, the price was more than 200,000 yuan, the second type would be worth more than the first type. He was confident in his gems. Seeing that Jiang Hai had already chosen it, Manager Zhang didn't say much, so he went out to invite two people in.

One of these two people is a middle-aged man, who looks like a master, and the other one is probably an apprentice. He came to gain knowledge and hand over things. After the two of them came in, they briefly introduced it, and Jiang Hai also took out the stone he obtained from the cave.

He obtained a total of 213 stones that could not be broken in the cave. He identified all of them as insufficient money on him. He could only see if the stones identified were valuable. If they really didn't work, he could only sell a batch and re-evaluate them.

He is reluctant to use snake scales to plant flowers now. I think these stones can always be worth the money for identification.

The two prepared the instruments, Jiang Hai also took out some stones and placed them on the coffee table, watching the two of them start to identify them.

"This is a natural crystal, not valuable. It's so big, it costs about 3,500 yuan." But soon, the man finished reading the first 'gem'. When he heard this man's words, Jiang Hai sighed. He also knew that the crystal might have been quite valuable in the past, but since it could be artificially manufactured, the price of natural crystals has never been high. If it weren't for his good purity, it might not even be worth 3,500 yuan.

"I look a little too optimistic." I muttered in my heart, and at the same time, I put away all the items on the table with similar appearances. Since they are all crystals, there is no need to identify them.

The appraisers there didn't care. After all, there were too many varieties of gems and too many laymen, so there was no need to cheat such money.

Jiang Hai was already helpless after appraising more than a dozen yuan in a row, all of which were natural crystals. Fortunately, the price of these crystals was not less than 2,000 yuan, which was considered to have earned back the appraisal fee.

"Huh?" But just as Jiang Hai was about to be numb, the appraiser here suddenly exclaimed and looked at the gem in his hand. This time, he had been fiddling with it for almost ten minutes before raising his head and looking at Jiang Hai.

"You are lucky. This piece is not a natural crystal, but a natural sapphire. It is about ten carats in size and is worth one and two million." Jiang Hai was stunned for a moment when he heard the appraiser's words. This time the appraisal fee was released.

After thinking about it, he put the crystals back into his bag. The remaining ones that were not sure were all 132 yuan, and they were all piled up next to him. Looking at the workload, the appraiser couldn't help but smile, but he didn't say anything, because this is his job, and he earned a commission in this regard.

He was awarded a gem for 2,000 yuan, and he was awarded a commission of 1,500 yuan. Jiang Hai was also adding money to him.

Perhaps because of this sapphire, the appraiser became more careful when looking at it. However, crystal is crystal, and you can’t just look like a gem by looking carefully. Among the remaining gems of Jiang Hai, there are 121 pieces, all of which are natural crystals.

Basically, the big ones are all natural crystals, and the rest are all gems, and they are all relatively small.

In a blink of an eye, the appraiser had already seen 130 yuan. Except for the two that were not seen, only nine were gems.

The most valuable piece is a 12.37 carat ruby, with an estimated price of 2.3 million.

There are also two smaller pieces of rubies, which can be sold for about 500,000 yuan together.

The remaining three emeralds are worth about 1.6 million yuan together.

The two sapphires are worth 400,000 yuan together, and the sum of the two pieces of sapphires that were originally identified at the beginning is only 1.6 million yuan.

The remaining three gems, two sea blue and one golden green, are all fifty carats in size, which is about ten grams.

Together, it can be sold for about one million, which means that the total value of these stones is seven million soft sister coins.

Although there is a considerable gap between the tens of millions and hundreds of millions that Jiang Hai imagines, seven million is also good.

While comforting myself in my heart, it was worth it this trip, and the appraisers there had already appraised the things.

Among the two pieces of the last appraisal, one of them was natural crystal, which was worth several thousand yuan, but when I looked at the last praisal, the eyes of the appraiser suddenly turned green...

Looking at the stone, he kept looking at it, and he kept looking at it for about half an hour. After half an hour, he looked at the assistant beside him and told him what machine to get.

Soon, the young man came back, holding many machines in his hand, and then the appraiser began to test one by one.

About an hour and a half later, the appraiser held the gem and stopped talking, just sat there.

"Uh, is there any problem?" Jiang Hai asked strangely when he saw the appraiser's appearance.

"No problem, but if nothing unexpected happens, Mr. Jiang, you might be sending it." Looking at the pink hexagonal gem in your hand, the appraiser's eyes were illuminated.

"Did you post? Well, I'm really a little bit. After all, those gems are worth more than 7 million." He smiled mockingly. In a sense, he did post it.

"No, with this gem, the value of your gems just now is similar to the stones on the roadside." Hearing Jiang Hai's words, the appraiser's eyes began to shine, and he said to Jiang Hai with an excited expression.

"I can tell you 99.99% of this stone that this should be a pink diamond. The 4 C craftsmanship is the ultimate, with a net weight of 31.6 carats. Do you know the transaction price of this diamond? The transaction price per carat is 380,000 US dollars!" The appraiser seemed to be unwilling to let the pink diamond disappear from his eyes for a second, and said seriously.

"380,000 US dollars, one carat? Then 31.6 is 1,200, US dollars?" Hearing the appraiser's words, Jiang Hai's mind seemed to have suddenly got a hammer, a little confused, but the appraiser didn't seem to be planning to let him go.

"No, not only your pink diamond is a complete pink diamond, a complete pink diamond of 31.6 carats. The price is at least twenty times higher!"
Chapter completed!