In shops you can find many varieties of jewelry, but being on the Polish coast can not be denied the amber souvenirs. On the market there are many providers of amber jewelry and a wealth of design is almost overwhelming. So how do you choose a beautiful jewelry and do not overpay?
Unfortunately, this question has no simple answer. First, you should not buy jewelry at first found a shop or stall. The rule is that the price of products does not depend on their quality, but from where is located the point of sale.
Thus the outlets in the city center and the beach will always offer jewelry at inflated prices. Differences in prices can be worthwhile because they can be as high as several hundred percent, finding a seller who is not naive pulls sunbathers and tourists. Because walking around town and look for a jeweler outside the city center is searching for a needle in a haystack, it is best to use the Internet. It is simple and fast method, with the least amount of effort you can find jewelry and amber several times cheaper than in the exposed points of sale. If you find a jewelry manufacturer that will offer a much wider choice and possibility to make jewelry to order (this certainly does not offer a vendor on the beach).
When buying jewelry should be noted, however, several fundamental issues.
The first concerns the jewelry with a large share of precious metals. Each copy must have a loaded sample, it is a sign of hitting the assay office, which confirms the quality of precious metals. After all, nobody wants to pay for the highest quality sterling silver and given a mixture of silver and other metals. Sometimes, however, instead of that trade issued a special certificate confirming the quality of material used. Additionally, the jewelry should be found even one character, it's about the so-called namesake. This is a unique identifier of a jeweler. For example, jewelry made of amber and thong without the use of precious metal, look for signs confirming the quality is a pure waste of time. Most simply, they are not needed. Price Amber does not depend on its purity, as in the case of silver. Here, pay attention to the basic factors
- Size (the bigger the cake, the higher the price per gram)
- Color (white is the most precious amber)
- Structure (sometimes you can find a nugget of amber milk subtle cloud or inclusions, which are unprecedented depth)
- Content (whether organic inclusions such as insects or plants, which significantly increase the value of amber)
Of course, we claim the bill, because not all vendors like to pay taxes:)
Paradoxically, the Polish amber jewelry is much older than the Polish. Even in the era of the Roman Empire in what is now Polish amber mined and processed it into sophisticated shapes. Then the products or raw materials transported to Rome, the way you lived today, traders of that time is called the Amber Trail. The contemporary amber jewelry was not as great as that we produce today, but due to technical limitations should be given that the goods were at a high level. Interestingly out of the amber mining on land that happens with raw amber from the hole machined by flying out a piece of the ancient craftsman. Some specimens have been dated long before the rise of the Empire, but production at these ages was so small that the craft production of amber jewelry is considered the heyday of the empire. Another interesting feature may be that the locals did not appreciate the beauty of amber jewelry to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The most famous product of the amber is amber chamber. The extraordinary craftsmanship elements of the chamber surprises today.
When buying jewelry, not only to amber but the other stones must reckon with the fact that in a few years we will have to go to an artisan friend to clean out our silver or listed stone. Not accidentally used the word friend, I know from experience that jewelers do not like jewelry repair and when they agree to such a system is set to prohibitive prices. If we do not have knowledge in these circles only chance is to go to the store where we bought jewelry and inquiry capabilities. The most favorable situation is when we bought jewelry directly from the manufacturer, sometimes even after several years of the artisan is able to know your product. If you have silver jewelry somewhere in an obscure municipal namesake is the manufacturer when you can identify the manufacturer of jewelry. From my own experience I must add however that the repairs are expensive on the one hand and on the other extremely risky, always when it comes to amber jewelry reserve that can be damaged and can not accept responsibility for it. So is it worth to buy jewelry with amber? As producer of any such distributions can be very objective but I must say that our customers will never regret handed us money. Many times I witnessed a situation when the client was looking at our range sniffed, saying that the road and the like, and after a short walk down the street Piwna (basin jewelry stores) rush returned to us and did a lot of shopping.
When we want to make a beautiful gift to the person who is important to us often decide to silver jewelry, but does not always make the right choice. So what to look for when buying silver jewelry? Above all, avoid companies "bushes," I do not mean small businesses but those who defend themselves before issuing the receipt or invoice. Another indication of the fact that we are dealing with the suspected manufacturer bużuterii may be the lack of namesake and loaded test in an inconspicuous place. The Namesake is a small (no magnifying glass is just a small box) which is a unique signature mark of the jeweler. Attempting a little bit more square in which there are several cyferek talking about the quality of silver used for a given product. But most important is the assay office marks. Silver jewelry should have loaded three markers (two squares and a circle). Everything else is already questing our taste, a manufacturer will offer a cast (for whom I do not like) and other unique hand-made small work of art. However, it is to walk around the shops and see the offer of online shops. The stores, for example, the Wawel Castle from the prices you can get dizzy:) I will not conceal that these are the prices for wealthy tourists from Germany and the USA. With władnego experience I know that the best solution to reach the manufacturer ignoring brokers, small businesses typically do not have real shops, but sometimes sell by Allegro or their own stores. Shop around for such a producer, and even if we do not want to buy jewelry over the network, we can along the way to the Baltic Sea to get himself to such a producer.