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For a serious jade jewelry store at Yangon’s
Bogyoke Market
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the shopping
season is whole year around except Mondays and open hours are
10am to 5pm. There are plenty of interesting
things in this great oriental market and one
of them are all varieties of great jadeite
jewelry. The items on display are
overwhelming, there is no other market on
earth with such a lot of jade stores and
different items. On a place like this one
get aware what all is made out of the green
stone, today it is different to the last two
thousand years before.
Before jades were also used for household
items, daggers, knives, burial decoration
(Chinese) today its jewelry of all kind. Now
we visit this shopping center at Yangon’s
“high street” right in the center and get
mesmerized by all this beautiful and
sometimes quite exotic items in all possible
colors, shapes and forms. Colors are from
white to lavender, pink, yellow, green,
brown all the way to black which is rather
seldom.
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The shelves are
full with real artwork, not all the time,
but often, there are jadeite pendants,
rings, necklaces, earrings, bangles and so
on. Expensive items are a Jade Buddha in
various forms and sizes, Hindu gods carved
from solid jades also in different colors,
white is common, lavender and green jade are
more expensive so are various statues which
got encrusted with ruby and gold dust, this
is real stuff, no imitation.
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The question arising natural is how
to buy jade,
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answer is simple, look for the
color, saturated emerald green is
best, check the translucency, the
more transparent the stone is the
better the quality and the higher
the price, take 10x magnifying lens
with to see cracks or other things,
it is common to hide this impurities
by injecting resin etc. but the
resin only holds for around two
years after the stone deteriorates
and the item is worthless and look
for the texture, is it fine or
coarse.
To bring it to the point,
if you intend to buy a jadeite item
up to around $ 300,- your careful
check will probably be enough. Over
this amount you need to take a
consultant with you who can be hired
on a hourly base. Because there are
so many tricks to make great looking
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Jade
Jewelry Stores
Jade Jewelry
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low
quality one and this will only become
visible after around 2 to 3 years. Chinese
are very creative to pull you virtually over
the table. This is not so relevant in
Myanmar or Burma because the military acts
real harsh to crooks and that makes them
afraid but in countries like China,
Thailand, Singapore etc. nobody really cares
when you get cheated. The thing a casual
buyer should understand, this guys have more
than 2000 years experience to manipulate
this green stones, they know what they do. |
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Singapore Jade Shop |
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