An 18th-century bull's eyepatch, a 19th-century single-shot rifle, a Walther PPK pistol captured from Germany at the end of World War II, a family heirloom Morgan gold coin, a mid-19th century printed Bible, and a late 19th-century imported Cantonese vase......

All of the items have a story behind them, such as the PPK with a leather holster, which, based on the number on the gun, can be determined to be the last civilian 9mm model produced in the early 1940s, but all of them were requisitioned for military use.

From April 40, the Walter PPK was completely converted to the military, and the gun numbers were changed to the military system.

As for the value: although the "civilian era" treatment process is even more refined than the "military era" (the performance is actually exactly the same, that is, the surface process can be made simpler. ), but the collectible value is a little lower than that of the military number.

$800, a good old gun price.

The collection is very diverse, but except for the bells and whistles vase, there are no high-grade old Chinese objects. There are two figurines in ancient Greece and Rome, and there is even a collection of ancient Roman coins, which contains more than 300 gold and silver coins of various types.

But this is the United States, and it's almost the same as showing your face on TV for "imported products", and there is no door to win the grand prize.

That's right, "Treasure Hunt for America" has only been broadcast for two episodes before today, and Zhang Nan doesn't want to cause the hype of Chinese cultural relics in advance, so he didn't let the program team and the TV network guide them nakedly, so let it take its course.

An ordinary official kiln porcelain of the former Sanqing Dynasty in China will only be a matter of tens or hundreds of dollars in the circle of Americans, because the value is not particularly high, unless it is a real layman, otherwise it will not be brought to such an occasion for identification.

This is just like the Chinese "Treasure Hunt into a certain area", local Tibetan friends will never bring a piece of Western porcelain from the end of the 19th century to identify: stupid or not, don't be cheeky!

It's a shame to say it, and it will be regarded as a lack of calcium in the brain by people in the circle.

Speaking of the general official kiln porcelain, Zhang Nan now has little appetite, and what he hopes is whether he can get one or two "national heavy weapons" out of fishing, such as large ancient bronzes or something.

Chinaware...

Hehe.

Weng Yeming's kid is now not only a master in the antique collection and trading circle in the capital, it is said that he is already a successful person, and he will run around all over China when he is free, collecting all kinds of fine antiques for Zhang Nan, an incompetent "brother-in-law".

The 80s have just passed, last year, the construction and real estate companies in Beijing and the food group in Jiangnan have transferred tens of millions of yuan of acquisition funds to him through operation, and the glaze factory cannot compare with the wrist of "Baylor Mansion Weng Ye", and even the glaze factory will take the initiative to contact Weng Yeming and sell the boutique in his hand.

No way, in such a tense foreign exchange trading environment last year, Weng Ye has foreign exchange in his hands!

There are pounds and francs, but the dollar is a little less, but in the private circle, the whole capital can't get a third person who has as much foreign exchange as him.

Who else is there?

It is said to be his sister, Weng Qianhui, the legendary "brother-in-law" who is unclear with her sister.

There are still people above who follow it, and if the foreign exchange is not stolen or robbed, the management department should not do it.

The country has become like that, and for general-level antiques, Zhang Nan is really a bit dispensable.

Since the original sweeping of the glaze factory is a legend, Weng Yeming doesn't learn well, sometimes add a rare free Jiang family third, plus a few long-eyed masters, running around to sweep the cultural relics store!

As for the things in the gray area, there are also people who help him collect them, and they only get to him after two hands.

The last time I called the capital, this Weng Qianhui also asked when she would be able to go back: not only because she missed her man, but also because the antiques collected by her younger brother were transferred to Yan County, because of the long-term martial law last year, there was a backlog of nearly 10 million yuan in Baylor Mansion!

Many of them are still superb, if all the things are made public, they can make the glaze factory startled, and the eyes of the National Museum will light up!

I will go back to the Asian Games, and Zhang Nan feels that no matter how I look for it, I will have to come out of a smaller private museum in my hometown in the past two years, even if there is a building, a license and a gate.

For legal!

Legality is very important, even if your status is high and your energy is played, such a layer of skin is indispensable for people who play antiques, so as not to know if you are confused.

In the lobby of the New Haven Museum of Natural History, a 19th-century violin, two "Columbus did not discover the New World" Venetian glass mosaics (only photographs, the real thing is too big, as big as five or six meters high and ten meters long), six razor cups, a wooden folding desk, a Napoleonic mirror and a little devil's dog skin plaster are singled out.

These six items (sets) are the collections selected by Kurt Doucet and Anna Phillips to participate in the final "finals", and the most valuable ones here are the two large-scale glass mosaics, with at least 300,000 pieces of single and double sandwich stained glass mosaics!

And the two paintings have always been clear: the owner only knows that it had been on the wall of the lobby of a small hospital for decades, and now the hospital has long since been demolished and the painting has been returned to their family.

As for before...

The holder doesn't know, it's not posing, he really doesn't know.

The expert is still very level, and immediately said the origin of the puzzle: it was specially ordered from Venice for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, in order to be exhibited in the "Columbus Pavilion", but after the World Expo, it was not recorded and disappeared.

The first is "Discovering the New World" and the second is "Meeting the Monarchs of the Old World", which are worth a total of $1 million.

100% genuine, hundreds of thousands of Venetian three-layer glass mosaics, and they have to be put together, so how stupid will it be to imitate them?

At this point, Zhang Nan has completely lost interest in this issue of "Treasure Hunting", and said: "Yes, this is to send the plaster flag into a folk national treasure, I don't have to read it, go outside." ”

Those two "Columbus" Zhang Nan have no interest, they are just special handicrafts, and they have special significance to Americans, they are nothing to him!

As for the "escort": the plaster flag here can be compared to Columbus, but the owner of the mosaic is already overjoyed when he learns the price. In the future, it doesn't take much effort, and through the auction company introduced by the program team, it will take a few months to get millions of dollars.

Since "Columbus" is going to make a fortune, the program team will not give him $10,000, and this plaster flag has won!

Besides, respecting veterans is a propaganda need and a mainstream idea, and you can know the final result just by thinking about it, and there is no need to continue watching.

A few people around him followed, and when Zhang Nan walked to the door of the hall, there were already many bodyguards hidden in the crowd even outside.

Crowds outside?

Yes, the crowd, though not particularly much.

The public museum, plus there are activities, today is sunny and the weather is good, and a small flea market has formed in the small square outside.

Usually a few people come here to perform music, sell small crafts and thrift goods, but today, people who do flea markets and thrift business from many places in the neighborhood also come.

Temporary stalls here require very little symbolic booth fees, that is, no garbage is allowed to be left - as for the "artists" who do not sell their goods, the venue is provided for free, and the social culture of the United States is ignored by the police.

The neighborhood is close to the bay, there will be some tourists, and there are activities in the museum, so it looks very popular today.

When he came here just now, Zhang Nan saw those people, and he felt that he hadn't visited the flea market for a long time, and he rarely had time, so he would go shopping.

Don't worry about safety, although it is said to be a "crowd", but there are actually only about 20 stalls, plus almost the same number of citizens who have nothing to do to play here, the number is not much more than their own bodyguards.

"Anyway, I've always had good luck visiting the flea market, so I don't know how it was today. ”

As soon as he walked out of the door, Zhang Nan said something to Xiang Weirong on the side.

"How many more copies of the Yongle Canon?"

Well, the brother-in-law will joke too.

Today in "Treasure Hunt", half of the stall owners who come here are thrift goods, probably also want to try their luck, and there will always be some antique lovers to join in the fun on such occasions.

Just like the Chinese rich man in front of him, half of the people recognize who Zhang Nan is: not to mention those tough bodyguards, they have been let go in the news several times, even if they are face blind to Asians, tourists and stall owners also recognize this as the hero of the San Francisco earthquake.

This is a kind of sadness for a person who visits a flea market, and completely loses the fun of picking up leaks on Taobao.

Zhang Nan smiled bitterly, because some people want to take a photo with themselves!

Let's shoot, we don't have anything bad to see, so we didn't let Mark and Jacob stand in the way.

After a while, there was finally no "hero worship" to disturb him, so Zhang Nan turned around to look at things.

There are all kinds of everything, and I have seen a few old things in China and the East, and I originally thought that I would not go empty, so I bought a mahogany vanity box that could disturb me when I saw half of the stalls.

But the stall owner also knew that it was the original export goods from China, a hundred-year-old object, and he would not let go of the 300 US dollars.

Well, the trade is not a friendship, Zhang Nan took the initiative to retreat.

Dozens of yuan objects, even if we have money, we don't spend it indiscriminately, and Bill Gates doesn't seem to be the wronged boss of the rich at the beginning.

Now all the stall owners who watched the excitement knew two truths: First, this rich Chinese man is an expert, so don't think about boring people!

Second, rich people are not exactly wronged, and when they are free, they will fight you for 300 rounds for 100 dollars!

I walked through two more stalls, haggled for $600 and bought a good SS dagger with a good handle, and threw it to Jacob after two minutes.

A gadget, noticing that the young man looked at it several times, gave it to him.

Zhang Nan did this on purpose, in order to make people think that he was here to play and enjoy the fun of visiting the flea market.

I've got money, but I'm not stupid, I'm here to play, I just have fun, it doesn't matter what I buy, it's just for fun, I don't like a few hundred dollars, I'll give it away.

Why?

Because he had already taken a fancy to a small bowl in the stall next door, a small blue and white bowl with an inconspicuous appearance.