In the words of insiders, the 2014 amber market has risen. Amber prices rose like crazy wild horses, rising in the peak season, rising in the off-season, good goods rising, and junk goods also rising.
The market is prosperous and the market is muddy. Whether it's amber or beeswax, all kinds of concept hype are repeated. Li Dai Tao is stiff, even artificially synthesized, with fake filling, amber and beeswax have been called the most serious organic gemstones.
Amber beeswax big PK
Amber is a resin derived from coniferous trees from 40 million to 60 million years ago. It is a natural resin fossil that has been deeply buried in the earth's crust movement. Some also imply the seeds of ancient ants, spiders, insects and plants such as mosquitoes and charred leaves. As a precious organic gemstone, amber is known as “the lightest gem in the world†and has a high ornamental and medicinal value.
People often say "millennium amber, million years of beeswax", it seems that the formation of beeswax is much longer than amber, but the Tibetans say this is just a legend.
Not all amber can be called beeswax. Beeswax is a kind of amber. It is named after its color, such as honey, and its light is like wax. It is bright yellow to dark red opaque. There is no difference between beeswax and amber in physical and chemical composition. They are fossil resins, organic ores formed by the burial of the resin in tens of millions of years or even hundreds of millions of years ago. In order to distinguish, some people simply call the transparent amber, and the opaque one is the beeswax.
The biggest difference between amber and beeswax is the difference in succinic acid content. When the internal succinic acid content is less than 4%, the fossil resin exhibits a transparent state, generally referred to as amber. The succinic acid content is between 4% and 8%, and the fossil resin exhibits a cloud-like translucent form, generally referred to as gold twisted beeswax, gold silk beeswax or crystal beeswax. When succinic acid exceeds 8%, the fossil resin exhibits an opaque foamy shape and is called beeswax.
According to expert analysis, the content of succinic acid changes with the geographical environment around the mineral deposit. The completely transparent amber can slowly turn into beeswax through certain environmental changes. The beeswax is gradually decomposed by the succinic acid after years of play, and it may be gradually changed to transparent amber.
However, in the market, the price of amber and beeswax is very different. Generally, beeswax is higher than amber, and the content is rare, and the reserves of beeswax are much lower than amber.
Collectors believe that the price of beeswax is higher than that of amber, one is due to scarcity of resources, and the other is because beeswax is listed as one of the “Buddhist Seven Treasuresâ€.
The collection of heat comes from the cultural fever, which stems from the social psychological identity of different historical stages. In Europe, the Ekaterina Palace (blog, Weibo) on the outskirts of Petersburg is famous for its “Amber Palaceâ€, which is derived from the traditional culture of Russia for European civilization. In China, the popularity of beeswax is Buddhist culture has a long history.
In Tibetan Buddhism, beeswax has the ability to exorcise evil spirits. On the chest of Gaochun Dade, a string of noble beeswax rosary is often hung, and believers believe that wearing beeswax with them, there is evil spirits to protect the body, calm the nerves, Protect the safety of peace.
The admiration of beeswax in Tibet has a long history. It is said that as early as the Tubo period, the minister of Songtsan Gambo was wearing a necklace made of beeswax beads. Beginning in the Qing Dynasty, beeswax beads were essential among the items that the Tibetan local government tribute to the central government every year. In this regard, the archives kept by the Forbidden City are well documented. The Beijing National Culture Palace also exhibited the beeswax beads that the Dalai Lama presented to Chairman Mao. According to reports, in the past, Tibetan nobles used beeswax, not fresh yellow, and the natural dark layer formed on the beeswax.
The beeswax fans are quite disdainful about the amber collection. It is believed that the type of beeswax is small and easy to distinguish. It is highly accepted in the domestic market, and it is easy to start and easy to shoot. Amber is now more of a variety of jewelry, a wide variety. From the origin can be divided into Baltic amber, Dominican blue, Burma, Fushun Huapo and Mexican amber; from color to Kemper, Blood, Tea, White, Blue, Green, Violet, etc. . Because the amber classification is complicated, the amber reserves of each color are not clear, and the price is mostly due to speculation. For example, the popularity of Lanpo in recent years, the price of Dominican Lanpo has skyrocketed. If it is analyzed from the age of mineralization, the Dominican Blue Pearl Mineralization Short time, low hardness and limited collection value.
"Old beeswax" and "recycled beeswax"
The price of amber has risen from about 2012 and has soared since 2013. The world's largest amber producer is in the Baltic Sea, with production accounting for 80% of the world's total. The main market for these ambers is the Chinese mainland, with the largest increase being beeswax.
The rise in the price of beeswax in recent years has spawned a chaotic market. Chemically synthesized beeswax abounds, and the high level of synthesis, the difference with natural beeswax is difficult to distinguish between people in the circle. Common pseudo-techniques are mainly composed of low-grade amber and chemically synthesized plastic and resin products as natural beeswax. The industry believes that the gemstone market is the most serious.
There are many ways for collectors to identify the authenticity of natural beeswax: first look at the color. In addition to the common yellow color, the color of beeswax includes red, blue, black, purple, green, etc. The true beeswax color looks very comfortable, the color transition is very natural, and the fake beeswax color is often different. Secondly, once the natural beeswax is heated or burned, it will give off a pleasant resin smell, while the synthetic beeswax will have a pungent plastic smell; put the beeswax into 1/4 saturated brine, The natural beeswax will float, and the synthetic fake beeswax will sink; the natural beeswax will feel warm, while the synthetic beeswax will feel as cold as jade and glass.
Experts remind new entrants that these methods are only effective in distinguishing fake waxes with inferior synthetic techniques. The beeswax market is full of many chaotic concepts. Some people in the circle suggest that ordinary fans pay more attention to new beeswax, while professional collectors Home and investors should prefer the best old wax. As for what is old wax and new beeswax, the language is unknown.
There are bloggers who read the beeswax purchase experience online. It is not instructive for novices: the old amber beads that were bought in a store were very good, so they relaxed their vigilance when buying beeswax. Recently, they accidentally used a flashlight. The heart screams badly and buys "recycled beeswax". The composition of the regenerated beeswax is actually beeswax, which is formed by the hot melt of beeswax powder and wax. Some people will regard the secondary synthetic regenerated beeswax, noble beeswax, and snow mountain beeswax as beeswax. I only like natural beeswax. It is very simple to identify natural beeswax and regenerating beeswax. Just look at the texture with strong light.
Using Coba Resin
The current market amber beeswax is really difficult to distinguish, let alone experts will "eye", even professional instruments may not be recognized, the most common pseudo-tactic is to use Coba resin to impersonate amber.
According to experts' analysis, Coba resin and amber, beeswax and white wax are natural resin fossils. There is no obvious difference in terms of composition and formation. The only difference is that the formation age is very different. The fresh resin is dried to form a hard resin, and after the hard resin is buried underground, after tens of thousands of years to several million years of geological action, a semi-petrochemical resin is formed, which is a coba resin. Amber is a resin fossil that has been buried in the ground for thousands of years or even hundreds of millions of years.
Coba resin is produced in many quantities and is inexpensive. It is often used in building decoration. It melts Coba resin into a gelatinous liquid and spreads it on the ground. It can be leveled, which is different from amber and beeswax in price.
Insiders reminded that amber beeswax often has "optimization", especially some amber waxes with high clarity and similar color to "chicken oil yellow". Whether it is purification, color improvement, or old-fashioned, this "optimization" is actually shoddy. Coba resin is the most used raw material for this “optimizationâ€.
According to reports, 90% of Coba resin has been sold as “old waxâ€, which also reveals the cause of the proliferation of recycled beeswax on the market: First, the transparency of Coba resin is lower than that of amber. Poor, no matter how optimized, amber and Coba resin are still difficult to mix; in addition, because of the poor texture, it adds to the so-called "old flavor" of this "old beeswax".
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