It is reported that Mr. Zhang bought a hundred catties of snails from several fishing boats and found that the shell of a yellow snail was cracked. "Since it is cracked, I will break it and deal with it. As a result, when the shell was removed, I felt something. " Mr. Zhang said with a smile that at first he thought it was a stone, so he cut the snail meat with a knife and found it was a bead.
Someone told him that this may be a melody bead, also known as a dragon ball and a flame bead. This kind of pearl is mostly found in conch, which is called coconut snail and is also our local snail.
According to the preliminary weighing measurement, the weight of this bead is about15.6g, and the diameter is about 2cm, which is larger than a 50-cent coin. It is round and orange, "just like the color of orange peel."
20 14, 1 1, some citizens of Shishi also got such pearls. 20 15 Yearbook At that time, insiders of Quanzhou Jewelry and Jade Jewelry Industry Association said that the stock of "melody beads" was very small, there was no mature pricing system like pearls, and relevant institutions could not issue appraisal certificates.
It is reported that the "Merlot Pearl" with good appearance and large volume is very collectible, but what price can be sold depends on the buyer.
It is understood that Merlot beads are characterized by orange and yellow as the morning sun, and the beads are covered with flame-like growth lines, which are precious and rare treasures.
Merlot beads are composed of calcite and aragonite microcrystals, which are orange-yellow, orange-yellow, yellow-brown to nearly white. They have the bright appearance of ceramics, flame texture, irregular shape to egg-shaped and round, and the round value is usually high.
The probability of finding Merlot beads in conch is one in a thousand, and the probability of fully mining them with large size and good quality is even lower.