Chapter 88 The Spirit of Craftsman
There was also a young man at the scene who immediately recognized that it was a traditional handicraft from their country and walked over immediately.
"Sir, can I have a look?"
This young man is quite polite.
However, Xiaoli has always done a good job on the surface, giving people a polite feeling. In fact, all kinds of dirty tricks emerge in an endless stream.
The Chinese know this very well.
Henry nodded and let him take a look as he was about to find someone to take over! Now that he was delivered to his door, there was no reason to refuse him, and he was going to swindle him severely later!
Koizumi did not look at the copper pot first, but stretched his hand to the bronze statue first, with a rather solemn expression.
After looking at it for a while and confirming that it was one of the four major monsters in their country, Koizumi put the bronze statue down respectfully. Then, he looked at the other bronzes.
Others don't know. As a young man, doesn't he still know how to hammer copper?
Hammered copper is famous not only for its hand-made copper, but also for the special patterns on its surface. This pattern also has a specific name, called hammer pattern.
The hammer pattern is natural and casual, and can produce many styles with different textures, or like barren and cracked land, or like waves blown by the breeze, or like the cracked bark of old trees, in short, it gives people a sense of returning to nature. Zen.
This is the case with these bronze wares in front of you.
Xiaoquan secretly guessed that these bronzes must be the works of a certain master in his country, and their collection value is relatively high.
Next, there is the color of these bronzes, which is very high-end and is similar to the Xuande copper color of the Xuande furnace of the Ming Dynasty in China. They do not deny that this traditional handicraft of theirs has borrowed Chinese technology.
Of course, they didn't copy everything, and they still did some research and development of their own.
That is, tin is soldered on the surface of the copperware, and then the tinned copperware is immersed in a liquid such as potassium sulfide. In this way, a variety of colors can appear on the surface of the copperware, which is gorgeous and low-key, noble and stable.
In Koizumi's view, hammering craftsmanship has been a cultural treasure that has been passed down for hundreds of years, and the hammering tools used to make hammered copperware are also treasures passed down from generation to generation.
But alas, this is not produced by Tamagawa-do.
There are many famous craftsmen's shops that make hammered copperware, but the highest level is undoubtedly Tamagawado. Tamagawa-do is a world-famous time-honored brand of hammered copperware. It was founded by its founder Tamagawa Kakubei in the late Edo period.
Tamagawa-do has had a long-standing supremacy there. At the 25th anniversary celebration of Emperor Meiji’s wedding, a bronze vase was presented to represent blessings. For a time, hammered copperware attracted much attention and received constant praise. From then on, the bronze wares hammered by Tamachuan Hall became imperial supplies and gifts.
The reason why Tamagawado can firmly occupy the first seat in the industry is related to his mature and perfect "one-piece hammering".
Koizumi knows very well that not all hammered copperware can have the spout and body integrated. Tamagawa Hall can perfectly achieve the splicing process of any appliance without any welding or other splicing processes.
"Are you ready?" Henry didn't have a good temper towards his little life.
He has studied in China, and he must be on China's side emotionally. He knows the heinous crimes he committed in China when he was a child, so it's strange that he has a favorable impression of him.
"Sir, how do you sell this? I want it all." Xiaoquan said.
Henry: "Want them all? Then I'll give you a discount, $100,000, take it!"
Koizumi: "..."
Is this your special price?
Although Xiaoquan can accept this price in his heart, he still wants to keep the price down.
Those onlookers, especially the fat black man, immediately felt regretful and slapped their thighs wildly, missing out on tens of thousands of dollars! Why don't you follow me for a while?
At this time, they also discovered that Lin Yuan was quite capable.
I have won three containers in a row.
One or two can be said to be luck, but three in a row is strength.
The fat black man became even more determined, and he must follow to the end next time. "100,000 US dollars is too high, can we do 50,000 US dollars?" Koizumi bargained.
Henry was convinced: "Your country's treasure is only worth 50,000 US dollars? Is it so worthless? Forget it, I don't think you are sincere."
"$60,000." Koizumi quickly added another ten thousand.
Henry: "100,000 U.S. dollars, not a penny less, love or not."
The onlookers called him "good guy!"
Faced with Henry, who had no access to oil and salt, Koizumi had no choice but to sulk in the end and spent US$100,000 to buy all the hammered copperware.
After receiving the money, Henry was generous and gave the other party the container that had not been cleaned yet.
Koizumi bowed ninety degrees in thanks.
This made Lin Yuan and others speechless.
In my childhood, my craftsmanship was really impressive, and I would bow at ninety degrees at every turn. No matter how big a mistake or crime you commit, you can just bow and be done with it.
I've already bowed, what else do you want?
"Brother Lin, when will we take action?" Qiao Yufan asked.
Everyone around Lin Yuan understood what Qiao Yufan meant by "taking action".
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It is rude to come and not reciprocate!
I must give that fat black man some color. Otherwise, next time the container they like will be snatched by others like crazy dogs.
"Don't worry, wait a moment, two containers away." Lin Yuan said.
He asked everyone to calm down.
Of the two containers at the back, one was sold for US$8,200 and the other was sold for US$23,500. The reason why the price was so high was because everyone saw a safe inside the container.
As we all know, as long as safes, safes, etc. appear in containers, they will fetch high prices.
Everyone is willing to take a gamble.
The things that can be put in a safe are usually valuables. There has been a safe deposit box filled with hundred-dollar bills before, which made the bidders make a fortune and even made the news.
The container with the safe was taken by An Zhui and Mi Gen.
However, the two people did not open the safe on the spot and planned to get it back and open the "blind box", which disappointed many people who wanted to watch the excitement.
Except for the safe, there were no other valuable items in the container, and some of the garbage was probably worth a thousand or hundreds of dollars.
In other words, the safe would cost at least 22,000 US dollars to allow An Zhui and Mi Gen to recoup their capital.
It's hard to say, after all, anything is possible in the safe. An Zhui and Mi Gen lifted the safe and shook it. They could hear the sound of metal colliding inside.
This gave them a boost of confidence, feeling that there might be gold inside.
Not only them, but others at the scene thought so too.
Only Lin Yuan knew that the contents of the safe were worthless.
After An Zhui and Mi Gen got the safe, they stopped playing and hurriedly went back to open the safe. This kind of safe requires special tools to open, which are not available on site.
"Ready." Lin Yuan said.
Henry and others were refreshed.
"Let me do it," Paul said.
(End of chapter)