Introduction to : Amber Collections Pte Ltd · 2020-01-07 · World's Record Breaking Amber Piece in Copenhagen House of Amber and Copenhagen Amber Museum has just been enlisted in

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.