Chapter 204:
"Not worth much?" The young man standing at the door withdrew his gaze from the street outside and couldn't help but walk over to the counter. He looked at the shop owner behind the counter and raised his voice, "How is that possible? Do you know what these things are? They're all silver. You think we don't know anything?"
The antique shop owner smiled indifferently, "Do you know how much silver is per ounce now?"
One question left the two young men speechless. Seeing their stunned expressions, the antique shop owner casually said, "You can check with the trading market or the bank. The current price of silver is about 2.20 to 2.35 bucks per ounce."
"Gentlemen, please note, that's per ounce. But here…" He fiddled with the silver items on the counter with his hand, "All together, they probably don't even weigh five pounds. Do you want to weigh them?"
The two young men exchanged glances. Hearing the antique shop owner speak so firmly, they were almost convinced.
One of them nodded, and the shop owner took out a balance scale. He threw the silver items onto it and then turned the scale around, letting them see the dial underneath the scale pan. "Just over four and a half pounds, about seventy ounces. I'll give you the highest price, so these things are worth at most… a hundred and sixty bucks."
The shop owner quickly calculated the exact price. The two young men fell silent, not even noticing the conspicuous protrusion under the scale pan when the shop owner put the scale away.
They were still hung up on the fact that these things were worth much less than they expected. They initially thought these items would fetch at least three to five hundred bucks, or even more.
One of the guys pointed at the ivory comb, "What about this? How much is this worth?"