While on holiday at sea on the shores of the Irish Sea, Harry and Angelle Williams, two young married people from the English region of Lancashire had an extraordinary event. They had come on a short vacation because it was April, and the not-so-warm weather did not allow them to swim in the sea. Their goal was to relax, listen to the sea, feel the sand and enjoy the starry sky, but luck had a different plan for them.
As they walked along the beach enjoying the fine sand, a strong, foul odor ruined the two’s relaxing atmosphere. The smell was similar to that of a rotten fish, but when they looked around they did not notice anything unusual, the beach being very clean. The smell was so strong that the two began to look for the source that could emanate such a smell. At one point, Harry noticed something unusual that looked like a stone, and as he approached the mysterious object, he immediately realized that it was the cause of the unbearable smell. Initially, when he called Angelle, he suggested that she give up the search and move on because it seemed to be just bad-smelling garbage.
Harry’s instinct, on the other hand, told him that stone was hiding something interesting. After long efforts to persuade his wife to look more closely at the stone, she agreed. The man grabbed the stone and looked at it more closely. He suspected it was something precious, so he took the object and went with it to a specialist. When he saw the object, he was very pleasantly surprised and told the man what discovery he had made. Looks like it was a precious amber.
Amber is a very rare product that is found in the digestive system of whales and is used for luxury perfumes. Despite the unpleasant odor it has in its natural state, after being washed, dried, and passed through certain chemical processes, amber emits an extremely fine and pleasant smell. It is used by those who make perfumes to fix the aromas and not to stop the rapid evaporation of complex formulas from perfumes.
This viscous fluid is produced by male sperm whales in the intestines and is eliminated only by vomiting. These types of “stones” are brought ashore by waves because they have a lower density than water.
Amber has been an expensive product for a long time, but nowadays it is much more expensive because a law has appeared that strictly prohibits whaling. This substance is as expensive as gold. This is because amber can only be found floating on the sea or brought by waves to shore, which makes it very rare.
The two spouses were very lucky to discover something so rare on the beach. After explaining to the two what the “boulder” really is, he put it on the scales to see its weight and to find out its value. After a few moments, the specialist made them an offer that left the husband speechless. The amber they found weighed about 1.5 kilograms. Harry and Angelle were offered £ 50,000, which is about $ 71,000, and accepted immediately. They reported that he would not normally have insisted on looking for the source of an unpleasant odor, but that Harry had a hunch about it, which turned out to be real in this case.