{"id":202086,"date":"2025-12-26T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/202086\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:20:09","slug":"napier-antique-store-hit-by-boxing-day-silver-theft-as-prices-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/202086\/","title":{"rendered":"Napier antique store hit by Boxing Day silver theft as prices surge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keri Mason has co-owned the business with her sister, Raewyn, since 1995.<\/p>\n

Mason said with the price of silver being so high, the thieves must have specifically targeted the cabinets.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does make you feel a bit sick, especially this time of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is stuff that we could have sold and set us up for a quiet winter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s going to be less items to showcase now, but we\u2019ll make the most of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\" The door panel the thieves kicked into gain entry into Napier Antique and Jewellery Centre. Photo \/ Jack Riddell<\/p>\n

It was not the first time the store has been targeted by thieves, but Mason said it was the first time the store\u2019s silver had been targeted.<\/p>\n

The price of silver has more than doubled over the past 12 months, from $53 an ounce on December 24, 2024, to just over $123 on Christmas Eve this year, according to mygold.co.nz.<\/p>\n

Strong demand for the metal from the technology sector outstripped supplies and led to silver even outperforming gold on the stock market.<\/p>\n

The spike in value of silver is being driven by industrial demand, precious-metal spillover from gold, and renewed investor interest, according to Greg Smith, investment specialist at Generate in his 2025 market review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jack Riddell is a multimedia journalist with Hawke\u2019s Bay Today and has worked in radio and media in the UK, Germany, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keri Mason has co-owned the business with her sister, Raewyn, since 1995. Mason said with the price of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[123841,806,1558,34353,2023,138,3595,5972,3594,3607,111,139,69,2738,43382,3333,12937,7457,42370,2735,1515,1458,14168,66960,36672,12025],"class_list":["post-202086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-antique","tag-as","tag-been","tag-blame","tag-boxing","tag-business","tag-by","tag-day","tag-hit","tag-napier","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-owner","tag-partially","tag-price","tag-prices","tag-silver","tag-soaring","tag-store","tag-surge","tag-targeted","tag-theft","tag-thieves","tag-thinks","tag-wellknown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}