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Introduction to :Amber Collections Pte Ltd
Cheong Wing Kiat16 Jun 2017
slides : www.bc.com.sg
General Information
▪ Commenced business in 2016, with its private museum & office at #07-17, Henderson Building, Henderson Road, Singapore.
▪ The company has the rights to share revenue from sale of ambers & rare gems & to appoint local & overseas franchisees for its business.
▪ Principal activities in marketing of ambers, rare gems & other high value products via its Rare Gems Museum, e-commerce, m-commerce, direct & corporate marketing, and franchising of its business model.
▪ Target customers: Ultra High Net-worth Individuals (UHNWI), High Net-worth Individuals (HNWI) & Affluent Individuals.
▪ To appoint franchisees for its Rare Gems Museum around Asia -Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Greater China (include Hong Kong & Macau), Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, etc., and the rest of the world.
• Guinness World Record - largest rough Amber.
• Potentially world largest rough Diaspore, Grandidierite, Londonite & Pezzottaite.
• Potentially world largest polished Demantoid Garnet, Grandidierite, Hibonite, Jeremejevite, Painite, Pezzottaite& Taaffeite.
• Amber inclusions worthy for museum – potential holotype hairy mite & wasp, animal’s hair, mushroom, feather, giant spider & egg.
Why is our Rare Gems Museum world class?
County of Origin of our Ambers & Rare Gems
✓ Amber – Indonesia & Myanmar
Rare Gems
✓ Alexandrite- Madagascar *✓ Demantoid Garnet – Africa *✓ Diaspore- Turkey *✓ Grandidierite- Madagascar *✓ Hibonite- Madagascar *✓ Jeremejevite- Myanmar✓ Londonite- Madagascar *✓ Musgravite- Myanmar✓ Painite - Myanmar✓ Pezzottaite- Madagascar *✓ Serendibite- Myanmar✓ Taaffeite- Myanmar
* Indirect source
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2015/11/02/12-most-expensive-gemstones-world/#64bb54d21538
Amber:Art & History in a Gem
▪ An Art by Nature
▪ The Natural Time Capsule
Amber is fossilized tree resin, which has been appreciated for its colour and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Much valued from antiquity to the present as a
gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects. Amber is used in jewellery. It has also been used as a healing agent in folk medicine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber
Amber Mining in Myanmar
The Value of Art
http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/value-of-art.html
The Value ARCH of Amber
▪ Authenticity
▪ Rarity
▪ Condition
▪ Historical Importance
World's Record Breaking Amber Piece in Copenhagen
House of Amber and Copenhagen Amber Museum has just been enlisted in Guinness
World Records with the largest piece of amber in the world…
The amber weighs 104.72 pounds (47.5 kg) and measures 57.5 x 62 x 37 cm. The amber piece was found in the Dharmasraya region in West Sumatra in 2014 and is around 15-
25 million years old…
http://www.houseofamber.com/eng/events/index/view/largest-piece-of-amber-in-the-world-house-of-amber
图为重达19.2公斤、报价高达2.5亿元人民币 的血琥珀在第四届中国云南昆明国际珠宝展亮相 刘冉阳 摄 (16 October 2014)
http://www.chinanews.com/sh/2014/10-16/6687046.shtml
Remarks: Blood Amber (19.2 kg) for RMB 250 million
Examples of Rare Ambers
Giant Amber 50.4 kg
MitePotential Holotype
WaspPotential Holotype
The largest cut Painiteweighs 25.92 carats (5.18 g, 0.18 oz) and is owned by Ophir Collection, LLC (USA) on 20 December 2013.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-cut-painite
Painite is a very rare borate mineral. It was first found in Myanmar by British mineralogist and gem dealer Arthur C.D. Pain in the 1950s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painite
Rare gems exhibited at the Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase in 2014. Prices of up to $60,000 per carat were quoted.