Phillips, an auction house founded in 1796, is also a century-old shop, but it is only a few hundred years old, far behind Southby and Christie, and it is not qualified to be compared at all.

In Europe and the United States, it is estimated that it can only be regarded as a second-rate top auction house, but everything was different in 1999, in November 1999, this auction house was bought by the owner of the famous luxury brand 'ouch feed' for 70 million pounds, and merged into the name of the world's largest luxury group ouch feed.

Then it took advantage of the scandal-ridden situation of the first two auction houses to invest heavily in Phillips, and he didn't focus on those antiques, he knew that even if he competed, he couldn't compete with those two.

Therefore, his main 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 him to meet at his office here the next day, Jiang Hai breathed a sigh of relief, everything will have to wait for tomorrow.

The next morning, he arrived at Phillips' office with his backpack on his back.

"Hello, how can I help you?" When he walked into the office, he was asked by a receptionist.

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

"Mr. Jiang, is it? The time of your appointment is nine o'clock in the morning, it is almost over, I will take you to the third reception room to wait for a while, and I will call Manager Zhang down. Hearing Jiang Hai's words, the girl first smiled and nodded, and then led Jiang Hai to a VIP hall, where Jiang Hai added a cup of tea, and then left, and after a while, a man in a suit walked in from outside, this person looked about forty years old, but he was very capable, and he laughed first when he saw Jiang Hai.

"Mr. Jiang, is it? I'm the account manager of Phillips Auction House, my surname is Zhang, how can I serve you? He shook Jiang Hai's hand first, and the middle-aged man asked with a smile.

"That's right, I have a batch of gemstones, and I want you to help identify them." When shaking hands with this person, Jiang Hai also explained his coming, and it was not surprising to hear that it was an appraisal of something.

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

"This is naturally possible, but it is not easy for our auction house to operate, and if it is appraised, it needs to charge a certain fee." and Jiang Hai sat on both sides of the coffee table, and Manager Zhang said with a smile.

"I know this, but I don't know what the fee is." Nodding slightly, Jiang Hai had already inquired before he came, the auction house appraisal, naturally there is a fee, in fact, they mainly earn this money, as for the auction, it is not open for three years, and it will be open for three years.

"There are basically two kinds of appraisal fees in our auction house, one is to charge one percent of the handling fee according to the appraisal as the appraisal fee, if it is some collectibles worth thousands or tens of thousands, it can be chosen in this way, and the other is a fixed appraisal fee, two thousand for one thing." Looking at Jiang Hai, the account manager said with a smile.

"In this case, then I choose to fix it!" After thinking about it for a while, although Jiang Hai didn't know the value of these things on his body, but if there was a treasure, the price was more than 200,000, and the second one would be more worth it than the first, he was confident in his own gems, and seeing that Jiang Hai had already chosen, Manager Zhang didn't say much, so he went out and invited two people in.

One of these two people is a middle-aged man, who seems to be a master, and a young man is estimated to be an apprentice, who came to learn and hand over things, after the two came in, they gave a brief introduction, and Jiang Hai also took out the stone he got from the cave.

In the cave, he obtained a total of 213 unbreakable stones, and all of them were appraised that the money on his body was not enough, so he could only see whether the stones identified were worth anything, and if he really couldn't do it, he could only sell a batch and re-appraise them.

He is reluctant to use snake scales to grow flowers now, thinking that these stones can always be worth the money for identification.

The two of them prepared the instruments, Jiang Hai also took out some stones and put them on the coffee table, and watched the two begin to identify.

"This is a natural crystal, it's not valuable, such a big piece is about three thousand five hundred yuan." But soon, this person finished reading the first 'gem', hearing this person's words, Jiang Hai sighed, crystal He also knew that it may have been quite valuable in the past, but since it can be artificially made, the price of natural crystal has not been high, if it is not for the good purity of this piece, it may not even be worth three thousand five.

"I look a little too optimistic." muttered quietly in his heart, and at the same time put away the similar products on the table, since they are all crystals, there is no need to identify.

The appraiser over there doesn't care, after all, there are too many varieties of gemstones, and there are too many laymen, so there is no need to pit such money.

More than a dozen pieces were identified in a row, all of which were natural crystals, Jiang Hai was already a little helpless, but fortunately, the price of these crystals was not less than two thousand, which was regarded as earning back the appraisal fee.

"Huh?" But just when Jiang Hai was about to be numb, suddenly the appraiser here sighed and looked at the gem in his hand, this time he fiddled with it for more than ten minutes before he raised his head and looked at Jiang Hai.

"You're lucky, this is not a natural crystal, but a natural sapphire, the size is about ten carats, and it is worth one and a half million." Hearing the appraiser's words, Jiang Hai was stunned for a moment, and this time the appraisal fee came out.

After thinking about it for a while, he put those that had been determined by the crystals back into his bag, and the rest that was not so sure, a total of one hundred and thirty-two pieces, were taken out and piled up next to them, looking at the workload, the appraiser couldn't help but laugh, but he didn't speak, because his job is like this, and what he earns is the commission in this regard.

Identifying two thousand pieces of a gemstone, he got a commission of one thousand and five, and Jiang Hai was also adding money to him.

It may be because of the relationship with this sapphire that the appraiser looks more carefully, but the crystal is crystal, not if you look carefully, you can see it as a gemstone, Jiang Hai's remaining gems, there are one hundred and twenty-one pieces, all of which are natural crystals.

Basically, the big ones are all natural crystals, and the rest of them are gemstones, which are relatively small.

In the blink of an eye, the appraiser had already looked at one hundred and thirty pieces, and except for the two that he had not seen, only nine were gemstones.

The most valuable piece is a 12.37 carat ruby, estimated at 2.3 million.

There are also two smaller rubies, which together can sell for about 500,000 yuan.

The remaining three emeralds are worth about 1.6 million together.

The two sapphires, together are worth 400,000, which is only 1.6 million when they were originally identified at the beginning.

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

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

Although there is a big gap with the tens of millions and hundreds of millions in Jiang Hai's imagination, seven million is not bad.

While comforting himself in his heart, this trip was worth it, and the appraiser over there had already identified the things.

In the last two pieces of identification, one of them is a natural crystal, which is worth thousands of dollars, but the last one, when I looked at it, the appraiser's eyes suddenly turned green......

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

Soon, the young man returned, still with a lot of machines in his hands, and the appraiser began to try them one by one.

About another hour and a half, the appraiser took the gem and sat there without speaking.

"Uh, what's the problem?" Seeing the appraiser's appearance, Jiang Hai asked a little strangely.

"There's no problem, but if nothing else, Mr. Jiang, maybe you're going to send it." Looking at the pink hexagonal gem in his hand, which was about the size of four thumbnails, the appraiser's eyes were glowing.

"Sent it? Well, I did make a little bit of a mistake, after all, those gems are worth more than seven million. He laughed self-deprecatingly, in a sense, he did send it.

"No, there is this gem, and the value of those gems you had just now is about the same as the stones on the side of the road." Hearing Jiang Hai's words, the appraiser's eyes began to glow, and he said to Jiang Hai with an excited face.

"You this stone, I can tell you 99.99 percent, this should be a pink diamond, the four Cs of craftsmanship are the extreme, the net weight is 31.6 carats, do you know the transaction price of this diamond? The price per carat was 380,000 dollars! The appraiser, at this time, seemed unwilling to let this pink diamond disappear from his eyes for a second, and said with a serious face.

"Three hundred and eighty thousand dollars, one carat? That thirty-one six is 12 million, American knife? Hearing the appraiser's words, Jiang Hai's mind seemed to be hammered suddenly, a little foggy, but the appraiser didn't seem to be ready to let him go like this.

"No, more than that, your pink diamond is a complete pink diamond, a 31.6-carat complete pink diamond, this price will be at least twenty times higher!"

"Shhh...... I seem to be a little blind, wait, don't talk to me, I want to be quiet......"