To unitarily manage stock information so that a trader or the like can present easily understandable information to general consumers or the like while allowing jewel space frames transferred and owned by many jewel space frame traders or the like to correspond to product prices based on bullion market prices.
In the picture information retrieval system 1 consisting of a host computer 2 provided with an optical disk 27 for storing a picture information group for bullion and jewel space frames or the like and its important information group or the like and a terminal 3 connected to the host computer 2 through a communication line 4 and constituted so as to extract required picture information from the disk 27 and output the extracted information to a display 37, the host computer 2 calculates jewel space frame price information required for the extraction based on the bullion price value information and weight information of jewels recorded in a register 22 and displays the calculated result on the display 37.