“Lately, I often come across advertisements on the Internet for the purchase of amber beads,” reader Alexey contacted the site’s editors. We tried to find out what caused the demand for the precious stone and how much you can earn from “grandmother’s” jewelry.

These are the prices buyers offer for good specimens (in Russian rubles and dollars).

“You can use the money from the sale of one old necklace to renovate your apartment.”

Banners on the Internet take us to the website of buyers from St. Petersburg, who operate throughout Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. “You had no idea how much money you had!” — the site page greets visitors.

Buyers claim that the price of good amber sometimes reaches $50 per gram.

“1500, maybe even 3000 dollars in an old box. Or several thousand dollars lying around on the mezzanine. Think for yourself - with the money from the sale of one old necklace you can make renovations in your apartment, pay for your studies, buy the latest iPhone model, go on vacation..."

True, then there is immediately a disclaimer that the cost, of course, depends on the type of amber, the presence of chips, color, size of beads, “but still, often we don’t even imagine what wealth is stored in our bedside tables.”

The authors of the site persistently invite users to look for old amber and bring it to them: “A hundred thousand rubles in a box, between an old jumper and a collection of left socks! Therefore, go ahead and shake out the chests of drawers. Maybe your future money is just around the corner.”

According to buyers, you will be doubly lucky if you find even beads made of opaque amber of yellow or yellow-orange color - “these are considered the most valuable, and you have already practically become rich. We have been buying amber for a long time and are well versed in its types.”

Help website: Amber is a fossil resin, a mineral of a class of organic compounds. To be precise, amber is not a stone. The color can be white, orange, yellow, gold, green, brown, red, colorless, blue (rare), black (rare). The last two are the most expensive. And the cheapest one is brown. The mineral is characterized by various organic inclusions: small insects, plants.

“It’s plastic!”

Having borrowed some old beads from my grandmother for a while, very similar to amber beads, I called the phone number offered on the website. I was able to reach St. Petersburg faster than using a Belarusian number.

“We are only interested in certain beads,” replied the girl who answered the phone. - These are balls, ovals, bochata. Color: yellow, opaque, landscape. Send 3-4 photos. It is advisable to weigh them or at least attach a ruler to the photo. If they suit us, a courier will come to you. You meet, draw up a purchase and sale agreement, and they give you the money.”

I sent a few photos via Viber and waited for a response.

Beads are participants in the experiment.

But not even a minute passed before a message appeared: “This is plastic! The solder on each bead is visible.” They didn’t respond to my messages anymore - apparently, as a potential client, they lost interest in me.

“Among modern jewelry with amber there are many artificial stones, but in old beads everything is natural”

An employee of one of the capital's jewelry workshops, Valery, said that in the last 1-1.5 years there has really been a great interest in amber.

“Because now they make a lot of artificial things, but natural amber has always been in price,” explains the specialist. — That’s why people buy old beads - back then everything was made from natural raw materials. And now production waste (amber crumbs, residues from processing) are pressed under high temperature and then often sold as real amber. And the technology is now so developed that even a specialist cannot always distinguish good artificial amber from natural one.”

Thus, at the end of last year, the world’s only industrial amber mining enterprise in Kaliningrad sharply increased prices for raw materials. For some items, the price tag has increased more than 6 times.

But among Belarusians there is no demand for amber jewelry. “They’re not for everyone,” says Valery.

In recent years, the Chinese have become interested in amber. In their culture, this stone has a special meaning. It is the Chinese who are the most frequent visitors to amber exhibitions in Kaliningrad and Latvia. So it is to the Celestial Empire that “grandmother’s beads” from resellers are most often sent.

I will spend the coming days in Kaliningrad. It feels like honey there for me. I drive and drive.
But in the Baltic it is very good. There is something to travel for. There is something to see, there is a place to relax.

The only question that has haunted me since my very first trips is the name “amber region”. To be more precise, there are no complaints even about the name. There are questions about amber itself. Why is it even needed?

90% of the world's amber is mined in the Kaliningrad region. I have heard many times about the importance of this natural material. But I have never seen its normal use. All that is made from it are beads and non-pont souvenirs sprinkled with amber. The only sane thing I saw from amber was the amber room. All!

Stories about amazing properties seem more like a fairy tale in which stone miners believe.
It is known that there is even a sanatorium that attributes amazing healing properties to this stone, but it seems to me that this is just a fiction.

The Chinese buy amber well. This is one of the main sales markets. But I wouldn’t particularly trust China. They also buy jade all over the world. Another unnecessary material, only green.

This raises the question. Why do you need to mine amber and increase its production every year if nothing useful is made from it? Or am I missing something?

I suggest you enjoy the windows of the official store of the Amber Plant.

01. Beads. I think this is the main thing that is made from amber.

Why are they buying “grandmother’s” amber from Kostyukovites? “Lately, I’ve often come across posted advertisements for buying amber beads.” What causes the demand for the precious stone and how much can you earn from “grandmother’s” jewelry. “You can use the money from the sale of one old necklace to renovate your apartment.” Banners on the Internet take us to the website of buyers from St. Petersburg, who work throughout Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. “You had no idea how much money you had!” - the site page greets visitors. Buyers claim that the price of good amber sometimes reaches $50 per gram. “1500, or even 3000 dollars in an old box. Or several thousand dollars lying around on the mezzanine. Think for yourself - with the money from the sale of one old necklace you can make renovations in your apartment, pay for school, buy the latest iPhone model, go on vacation..." However, then there is immediately a disclaimer that the cost, of course, depends on the type of amber, the presence of chips, color , the size of beads, “but still - often we don’t even imagine what wealth is stored in our bedside tables.” The authors of the site persistently invite users to look for old amber and bring it to them: “A hundred thousand rubles in a box, between an old jumper and a collection of left-handed ones.” socks! Therefore, go ahead and shake out the chests of drawers. Maybe your future money is very close." According to buyers, you will be doubly lucky if you find even beads made of opaque amber of yellow or yellow-orange color - "these are considered the most valuable, and you have already practically become rich. We have been buying amber for a long time and are well versed in its types.” Help FINANCE.TUT.BY: Amber is a fossil resin, a mineral of the class of organic compounds. To be precise, amber is not a stone. The color can be white, orange, yellow, gold, green, brown, red, colorless, blue (rare), black (rare). The last two are the most expensive. And the cheapest one is brown. The mineral is characterized by various organic inclusions: small insects, plants. “It’s plastic!” Having borrowed some old beads from my grandmother for a while, very similar to amber beads, I called the phone number offered on the website. We managed to get through to St. Petersburg faster than using a Belarusian number. “We are only interested in certain beads,” answered the girl who answered the phone. - These are balls, ovals, bochata. In color - yellow, opaque, landscape. Send 3-4 photos. It is advisable to weigh them or at least attach a ruler to the photo. If they suit us, a courier will come to you. You meet, draw up a purchase and sale agreement, and they give you the money.” I sent several photos via Viber and waited for a response. But not even a minute passed before a message appeared: “This is plastic! The solder on each bead is visible.” They no longer responded to my messages - apparently, I, as a potential client, had lost interest in them. “Among modern jewelry with amber there are many artificial stones, but in old beads everything is natural.” An employee of one of the capital’s jewelry workshops, Valery, said that in the last 1 −1.5 years, there really was a great interest in amber. “Because now they make a lot of artificial ones, but natural amber has always been in price,” explains the specialist. - That’s why they buy old beads - then everything was made from natural raw materials. And now production waste (amber crumbs, residues from processing) are pressed under high temperature and then often sold as real amber. And the technology is now so developed that even a specialist cannot always distinguish good artificial amber from natural one.” Thus, at the end of last year, the world’s only industrial amber mining enterprise in Kaliningrad sharply increased prices for raw materials. For some items, the price tag has increased more than 6 times. But among Belarusians there is no demand for amber jewelry. “They’re not an acquired taste,” says Valery. The Chinese have become interested in amber in recent years. In their culture, this stone has a special meaning. It is the Chinese who are the most frequent visitors to amber exhibitions in Kaliningrad and Latvia. So it is to the Celestial Empire that “grandmother’s beads” from resellers are most often sent. Read completely.

Only old amber beads made before 1990 from opaque amber can be sold to an antique store. Obviously, it is impossible to sell jewelry made from young (transparent) amber to an antique dealer.

Which amber beads can be sold at high prices?

Amber beads from old, landscape amber until 1991.
Old pressed amber beads (German press)
Opaque amber beads produced during the CCCP era
Large, solid pieces of old amber weighing from 30 grams
Real, natural inclusions (insect inside)

Valuation of amber and amber beads

Amber assessment online (based on photo)
- Take a photo of the amber beads using a camera or smartphone (from at least 2 angles). If amber beads need restoration (there are chips, cracks, abrasions), for the most accurate assessment of the beads, it is recommended to take close-up photographs of these places.
- Send a photo of amber beads in any way convenient for you.
  - Email: to
  - Mobile applications for Viber smartphone WhatsApp to the number specified in contacts.
Indicate: length, weight of amber beads, or diameter of the largest bead (ball) if you know this information. Based on this, we will be able to give a fairly accurate price for our interest in your copy. The response time of a gemologist during business hours is approximately 10 - 15 minutes.
To get the fastest results for assessing amber beads, please provide your phone number or Skype.
Evaluate amber beads by phone
- Contact an antique store expert at the number listed in the contact section.
- Use the call back service. The blue button is located on the right side of the screen.
From a verbal description of the beads, we will try to give a preliminary assessment. In any case, we can answer in the affirmative: are we interested in your copy? If not, we'll tell you where to go.
Visit to an antique store
- For all our clients and guests of the antique store, the evaluation of old amber beads is free.
- We work seven days a week and weekends. Before your visit, check the opening hours in the contacts section.
Free call to an appraiser
- You live in the Moscow region and you have neither the time nor the opportunity to get to the center of Moscow to sell old amber beads at the highest possible price.
- You are a pensioner or experiencing temporary health problems and moving around the city presents certain difficulties for you.
- The preliminary estimated cost of the amber beads exceeds 500,000 rubles and traveling on public transport is unsafe.
Contact the manager of the antique store. By agreement, an expert gemologist from among the store’s staff will be delegated to you. You set the meeting time and place (office, apartment, cafe) yourself.

How expensive can you sell amber beads here?

For the antique market, the axiom is true: only those who have a truly professional understanding of this segment of the antique market can appreciate and purchase an antique item at the maximum cost. In the case of amber, this is gemology. Plus, an important factor is the audience of buyers that has been built up over the years, which provides the antique store with confidence by charging the maximum price in the amber beads buying market.

"Bring a friend" promotion

If you are an advanced Internet user and are able to quickly and correctly find information on where you can value and sell amber beads at the most expensive price.
If people you know come to you for help with a request to find the address of a good purchase of amber beads or a pawnshop in Moscow, your review and opinion is decisive for them.

The antique store highly values the desire to help people and is ready to generously thank you for your recommendation. Check with the store manager for details and conditions of the promotion.

You live far from Moscow

You live in the Central, Western Federal Districts, the Urals, Siberia or the Far East.
You intend to sell a certain amount of amber beads at the purchase price in antique stores in Moscow.

You just need to send a photo of amber beads to the store's email address.

Why do people buy amber and amber beads?

Ethnic sentiments in jewelry are now in fashion. And amber jewelry perfectly matches women's outerwear. Mostly beads made from amber from the times of the USSR are in circulation on the market. Why USSR era? This is the conventional designation for amber produced before 1990. Beads made from freshly mined, young amber have no value. Because of this, no one is particularly interested in transparent amber. The cost of purchasing beads from the era of developed Socialism can reach tens of thousands of rubles.
The cost of purchasing well-preserved beads from the 19th century reaches hundreds of thousands of rubles. Therefore, jewelry made from processed amber today has a steady demand and keen interest from antique dealers.

Privacy and non-disclosure policy

Question: How confident can I be that contact information (e-mail address, phone number) will not become available to third parties, and that strangers will not call me?

Answer: The antique store under no circumstances transfers the contact information of our clients and guests to the outside world. Moreover, after 3 days, all information, including correspondence and personal contact information of guests, is deleted.

Payment and transaction security

Payment is made in cash, or, for security purposes, by transfer to the client’s payment card account.

Amber beads are considered one of the most popular jewelry in the world (not counting rings). What is the reason for such popularity of amber and beads made from it? And also why the price of amber beads varies from 1,000 to 100,000 rubles.

Amber beads

Amber beads are a very ancient and popular decoration among various peoples of the world.

This is due not only to the beauty of the sunstone amber, but also to the huge number of myths, legends and amazing stories that have been passed down from mouth to mouth for over a thousand years.

Amber is an organic mineral. The most sought after fossil amber is considered to be Baltic. It is from it that the most valuable amber beads are made. But if we look at amber from a different point of view, from the point of view of our ancestors, then we will see the most interesting world of this stone.

It is believed that amber protects its owner from the evil eye, gives strength and brings good luck. Amber beads (see Buy amber beads) are given as a wedding gift as a guarantee of long-term happiness and strong love. Elderly people value amber beads because in most works of scientists and researchers of antiquity, amber is considered a stone of life and longevity, which contains the power of the sun and is capable of changing life for the better.

Science is silent on these matters, and no research has been conducted. But those studies that were carried out by the Academy of Sciences in 1971 (see) brought extremely interesting results.

It has been proven that amber contains succinic acid. Typically this is from 2% to 5%. But the most interesting thing is yet to come.

Healing amber beads and succinic acid

What are amber beads? Amber beads are many processed or untreated pieces of amber of varying sizes, densities, textures and colors. In general, it is customary to distinguish 9 varieties of amber (see Varieties of amber), but not all are suitable for the production of beads, and only Baltic amber.

When pieces of amber rub against each other on a person's neck, the friction process produces amber powder (see Amber Powder) and succinic acid (see Succinic Acid). The latter is formed using mechanical activation. It has been proven that natural UC (succinic acid) has an extremely positive effect on the human body, acting as a powerful biological stimulant. Yes, UC is already formed in mitochondria. But as soon as the level of stress on the body increases, it becomes insufficient!

Succinic acid is responsible for feeding cells with oxygen and more. It has been proven that biological succinic acid (see Difference between natural and synthetic succinic acid) is capable of stimulating the regeneration process of sluggish cells.

Perhaps this is exactly the effect that our ancestors discovered experimentally when they began to revere amber, and amber beads became one of the most desired gifts.