Chapter 154 A day of picking up leaks
The other party expressed his understanding and didn't say anything else. He just added Shen You's WeChat message and said that being in a foreign country was fate.
After the little episode just now, Shen You and Wen Zhi continued to pick and choose at the flea market.
It’s not easy to pick up the leaks. All the products sold by poor white people are fakes. There are as many as you can find in domestic antique streets.
But, as luck would have it, there was something real.
A Qing Dynasty emerald silver hairpin, the emerald on it has almost fallen off, and the silver has also been severely oxidized. It looks like broken copper and iron, but it is real.
Wen Zhi acted as Shen You's translator when negotiating the price. Before she even started cutting the item, the seller asked for 20 pounds.
The equivalent of RMB is less than 200 yuan.
What else is there to cut?
Bought!
Shen You also found two such things, and they were basically worth a few hundred yuan.
It is worth two to three thousand dollars in the domestic antique market.
The most expensive antique mother-of-pearl fan cost more than 10,000 yuan, which was found in the store.
The shells are colorful white and have exquisite carvings. Although they were only exported from the Thirteenth Line in the late Qing Dynasty, they are indeed worth the price.
Shen You walked around here for a long time, and Wen Zhi followed without complaint, holding her trophies.
Shen You also suggested that he find a place to rest while she walked around by herself, but he refused.
He had only heard that girls liked to go shopping in the mall and could go there for hours. He didn't expect that when he was shopping in the mall on the cruise ship, Shen You said within half an hour that he couldn't walk, so he just found a store to buy something to wear. of outdoor gear.
When I got here, I became more energetic as I wandered among a bunch of fakes.
Just as he was thinking about it, Wen Zhi felt his hand being pulled twice. He lowered his eyes and saw that Shen You said to him excitedly,
"Ask the boss if you can take down the dusty bowl in the second row and take a look."
Wen Zhi was silent for a moment and then asked as she asked.
This is an agate bowl. As we all know, agate is not valuable in modern times and there are plenty of them online.
But it was valuable in ancient times. Pure natural agate is as brittle as crystal and is not easy to carve by hand.
The famous Warring States crystal cup is very valuable, as well as Qianlong's pink crystal incense burner.
The unique thing about this bowl is that the shape of the bowl is from the Song Dynasty!
And it doesn't look like anything new.
It’s hard to make a final conclusion as to what era it is, but what if it’s true.
After Wen Zhi asked about the price, the white boss made two gestures with his hands.
Five thousand pounds? Or fifty thousand?
If it is not from the Song Dynasty but is modern, this price is a pure injustice.
"He said 1,500 pounds," Wen Zhi said.
Shen You's eyes lit up a bit, but she didn't dare to show it, for fear of letting the other party see the price increase. "You said agate is not valuable, and asked him if he can sell it for 1,000 pounds?"
When the boss heard this, he waved his hands and said a few words. When he met Shen You's confused eyes, Wen Zhi translated: "Not a penny less."
Shen You:.
It's about more than 13,000 yuan, and the risk is not particularly high for her.
Agate with high quality and no impurities, and carved like this, would cost two to three thousand to get from modern crafts.
The boss was very resolute and couldn't negotiate the price at all.
Shen You thought for a few seconds, gave the boss an 'ok' gesture, and swiped his card to pay.
After buying it, she hid nearby and watched for a while.
"No, what are we doing?" Wen Zhi looked at himself and Shen You who were peeping in confusion.
“Ready to go shopping for zero yuan?”
With the two of them dressed like this, is it appropriate for them to be here? "What? Let's see if the boss will take out something exactly the same and put it up again."
Fortunately, it didn't happen. Shen You felt relieved now.
Agate bowls are different from porcelain. Other things can be judged from the raw materials and craftsmanship. This method will not work for agate bowls without patterns, and she is not sure.
Later, Shen You also saw ancient coins here. They were genuine coins with patina and some indistinguishable substances on them.
The seller should be Chinese, and those who read this also know the goods. Shen You has no intention of accepting it.
After looking at it carefully for a while, she could see that this thing had come from a wrong way and came from the tomb. The indistinguishable substance glued to it was probably Qin's corpse liquid.
Although there is no taboo against collecting antiques, most people would be uncomfortable with these things. Shen You was glad that she didn't take a look at them.
The ancient coins collected by collectors will not have this thing.
I don’t know when it was poured out. There were more people doing this during the war years and earlier years.
Some valuable ancient coins can be sold for hundreds of thousands or millions per copper plate.
Coins from the Warring States period were sold at auction for more than 2 million yuan. During the Xianfeng period, a copper plate with "Baoquan Dang 500" printed on the back was sold at auction for more than 5 million yuan.
She gained a lot today, and Shen You's steps became much brisker. She looked forward to having someone appraise the agate bowl when she went back.
This feeling of waiting to open the blind box is quite good.
When Gu Shaoyu returned to his residence after watching the jewelry exhibition, everyone was shocked when he saw what Shen You put out.
They actually brought back so many things in one day?
"This ball, holy shit! Is there one in the British Museum?! It's called the Guigong Ball. It was made during the Daoguang period and has 18 floors! You also said that you don't know what went overseas, and the carving craftsman didn't record it either. Did you go to another auction or loot the British Museum?”
"There is one there, but the carving pattern and number of layers are different." Shen You raised his head.
"Can I touch it?!" Gu Shaoyu intertwined the fingers of his hands in front of him, leaned forward, and looked at the ghost ball on the table, "I heard that if you fiddle with the hairpin, each layer inside will turn."
"Wear gloves before touching." Shen You took out a new pair of gloves from his pocket like a jingle cat.
Gu Shaoyu tilted his head, full of question marks.
"In my line of work, it's normal to carry a few pairs of gloves with you. It's not expensive to buy them overseas."
expensive?
What did she say when the price jumped by $100,000?
Gu Shaoyu was afraid that he would lose his hand and drop something, so he knelt beside the coffee table. He didn't dare to leave the tray, so he picked up the magnifying glass and looked at it. After Shen You allowed it, he used the hairpin she bought today to try to move the layers inside. .
"The innermost core is so small and has patterns. This craftsmanship makes your scalp numb when you look at it up close. Wouldn't it cost one or two hundred million to put it up for auction?"
"Almost." Shen You is repacking and protecting it so that it can be easily transported back.
"You really don't want to sell it?" Gu Shaoyu carefully put the ball down.
"Do you think I can sell this thing casually?"
It is not illegal to sell in foreign countries, but with such a large amount of money in the account, it is easy to be suspected of reselling antiques and then be investigated.
"And when I got this thing, I promised others that I would never sell it to foreigners. I don't like tooth carvings myself."
She has a cross-dimensional trading shop, so there is no shortage of opportunities to make money, so why bother trying to accumulate some wealth.
The Tang Dynasty murals that had been looted by others a few years ago had become like this because they could not be preserved. She felt regretful when she saw them.
They stayed here for a few more days, during which Wen Zhi went back to Daqi, and Shen You and Gu Shaoyu spent the day using translation software. After that, everyone went to see more medieval buildings and limited-time exhibitions.
Personal collection of a well-known collector.
These were wealthy people from aristocratic families a few hundred years ago, and their strength was extraordinary. They were just borrowing things, and they were so arrogant.
A piece of jade jewelry costs 200 million.