Today's Xiang Weirong is not an antique layman who doesn't know anything, and he also felt incredible about the problem of that mirror just now.

500 pieces = Napoleon?

Why are you kidding me!

A top-of-the-line item, but not a top-of-the-line luxury, costs $750 per box, which is more expensive than the mirror even if converted into dollars.

He is Napoleon, not an unknown person, Xiang Weirong knew his name when he was in junior high school, and it was in a special period!

Well, Zhang Nan forgot, even after another twenty years, in the Western collecting world, this mirror will not reach $2,000 at most.

Even if there are very few mirrors with his signature, at this price, there is no hype, no enthusiastic pursuit, and there is almost no market.

Napoleon is no longer crying and fainting in the toilet, it is estimated that he will have to crawl out of the cemetery and cut people!

If Zhang Nan could know about such a strange and unreasonable thing in his previous life, he would probably think about coming to the United States or France a few more times to see if he could find something related to Napoleon, and then bring it back to China to fool people.

Forget Napoleon's letters, few "cultural people" in China will collect Napoleon's letters, and even twenty or thirty thousand letters will be sold off in the domestic market.

If it is replaced by a letter from the Chinese emperor, it will be awesome, and the culture is different.

But the objects are different, what objects are sold to whom, such as Napoleon's hand mirror, which is very suitable for giving to some "special people", because it comes with a show-off aura - as long as you are not a fool, hundreds of thousands of it is appropriate!

"Where did you buy this mirror, it's beautiful. ”

"Hehe, there's nowhere to buy it, my boyfriend gave it to Napoleon's mirror, with her autograph..."

Damn, this forced pretend, it's blowing up!

......

The show is still being recorded, and by the afternoon all the shots here will be completed, and the mirror will become Zhang Nan's bag.

The stupid woman had already collected the money, but fortunately she was not stupid enough to go and spread it everywhere, and it is estimated that she still wanted to have a good harvest of fame and money: if she got the big prize, then there would be ten thousand dollars!

Back in the hall, I saw Anna Phillips with the experts and videographers rambling around the venue, while the male host, Kurt Dusse, and a 70-something-year-old gentleman in an old American World War II military uniform were there.

The old gentleman had a large frame in his hand, and in the middle of the frame was a piece of red metal, which seemed to have been torn from something.

In the upper part of the frame, there is a photo of a flying Little Devil World War II Zero fighter, and at the bottom of the metal sheet, there is a photo of a World War II Little Devil pilot in uniform and a text introduction, and there is a simple island map in the far corner.

What's the situation?

It's kind of interesting, listen to it.

On the day of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, a Zero fighter piloted by a little devil named Xikai Dizhongde was damaged, probably leaking oil, and there was no guarantee that he would fly back to the aircraft carrier.

At that time, there were probably not many devil pilots who would go to find their own death when there was hope of life, and according to the reserve plan before the attack, Xikai Di Chongde flew to the uninhabited island of Nihaw, more than 200 kilometers to the northwest, and made a forced landing - unfortunately, the devil's intelligence work was wrong, and the island was inhabited, and it was still an island that was extremely repulsive to outsiders.

Niihau, one of the eight main islands of the Hawaiian archipelago, covers an area of about 186 square kilometers and had a population of less than 300 at World War II.

Interestingly, it is not even a U.S. territory in the full sense of the word, and it has been ruled by women comrades for more than 100 years, and it is known as the little kingdom of women.

The island is said to have been ruled by King Mea IV of Hawaii and was purchased in 1836 by a Scottish nobleman's widow Sinclair from Maia IV for $10,000.

Perhaps tired of the glitzy hypocrisy of high society, the noblewoman left England with a dozen relatives and slaves and arrived on the island, where more than 200 natives became her subjects.

After 30, Sinclair stipulated in his will before his death: The inheritance of this small island will be passed on to the daughters and not the children, and it will always be ruled by the women of the Sinclair family.

In 1898, five years after her death, Hawaii was annexed by the United States, but the small female kingdom did not listen to the United States. By 1959, when Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States, the residents of Niihau voted to refuse to join the United States.

In order to have ownership of the island of Nihau. In 1975, the state government of Hawaii tried to buy Niihau Island as a state park for a large sum of money, but it was still refused.

The island road is still closed, and tourists are basically prohibited from visiting the island, let alone the 41st year.

Of course, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, American GIs could ignore the chaotic, self-talking island rules and send small troops to set up outposts on the northwestern part of the main group of Hawaiian islands.

Then, at the end of the following year, the veteran was sent to Niihau on some errands, heard about the Zero, and the guide accompanied him to find the place.

The fuselage of the plane had been burned, but the wings were probably not burned out because the oil was running out - this guy pried a piece of red sun dog skin plaster off the top and tore it off as a nice souvenir.

No way, this guy was a civilian at the beginning, and it was difficult to get some war souvenirs.

As for the little devil pilot?

After a forced landing on the island, it was found that because the contents of the plane were taken by the natives of the island, Xikaidi was so angry that he pulled out his pistol and fired three shots at an aborigine.

The injured natives burst out, roared, grabbed the little devil and threw him against a stone wall, and just like that, he fell to death!

It's a very powerful story, and there is a saying in Hawaii because of this incident: "You can't provoke Hawaiians more than twice, and the third time he will be angry!"

The story was also affirmed by Mr. Curator of the New Haven War Memorial, who was at the site to evaluate the collection: I had memorized the book and investigated, and the dogskin plaster was torn from the wing of the Zero fighter - the wreckage of the plane would still lie on the island of Niihau, where it had been forced to land.

There have been a lot of military records a long time ago, and the plane was missing such a large piece of dog skin plaster on the right wing. As for the veteran soldier's service experience, it is even more well-documented, and there is no need for him to lie at all.

The old soldier is proud, although he should not have fought with the little devil.

War, the soldiers who fought bloody battles in the front are glorious, and the support personnel in the rear are equally glorious, otherwise what will the soldiers on the front line do to fight with the enemy?

Hearing this, Zhang Nan looked at the American soldier with a straight waist, and said to Xiang Weirong beside him in dialect: "10,000 yuan belongs to him, unless there are two pistols to assassinate Lincoln, otherwise even if there are precious objects, the folk national treasure of this trip will only be that dog skin plaster." ”

Xiang Weirong said that he has the same view, and he has a better understanding of the temper and habits of Americans, except for the attitude of the mirror.

It's not that Zhang Nan wants to designate it as a "New Haven folk national treasure", but because this is the United States, anything that can be linked to the attack on Pearl Harbor, no matter what kind of rag it is, is a treasure!

Then, Zhang Nan smiled and said to Henry on the other side: "That devil pilot is a poor bastard nine times out of ten, otherwise that native can't kill him." ”

Henry was a little curious: how did you guess this?

You must know that at that time, devil pilots and other officers were in charge of military uniforms, shoes and hats, but portable pistols were often equipped by themselves, and there was no way, because the quality of the issued pistols was too bad, the appearance was too ugly, and the production quantity was insufficient.

If you can't make it domestic, then buy imported ones.

Browning and Colt automatic pistols are the most popular with little devil officers, but they are very expensive, about 500 fucking yen in Japan, if they are used in Japan Longyang, this is equivalent to 500 oceans in China at the beginning!

The next level is the German-made Mauser pistol, several short-barreled models are particularly popular and reliable, each at about 300 yen, and the Spanish product is about 250 yen again.

In fact, the Mauser produced in Spain is also very good, and some of the quality is even better than that of the German origin, but it is just an old "German original".

Only the poor and moneyless Dick Si officers will choose the Type 14 and Type 94 pistols made by Japan themselves, pilots, the Wang Ba box is not suitable and too big, and it is generally equipped with a short but not strong, or the cheapest Southern Type 94 pistol.

“... If Mauser or Colt had been used, the natives would have been beaten into a sieve. ”

Zhang Nan said with certainty that the 7.63mm Mauser bullet and the later 7.62mm Tokarev pistol bullet can be used universally, and the chamber pressure is a little higher than the latter.

Think of the guy who didn't hear the warning of the Type 64 pistol and used it as a pole when he heard the sound of the Type 54 pistol, and you can think of how lucky the native was.

At the beginning, the little devil had no way to buy imported goods, and most of his mass-produced pistols were unreliable, and the Seiko one-style pistol had not yet come out, and even if there were, it could not be divided into the hands of the pilot who could mix to the level of the poor bastard.

What? Southern 8mm bullets are powerful?

It has a stubby and short cartridge case, low muzzle velocity, small muzzle kinetic energy, and poor stopping effect. As a military pistol bullet, the performance of the southern 8mm bullet is barely qualified, but the performance is relatively poor compared with the pistol bullets of other countries in the same period.

Besides, although the Type 94 pistol is said to have good directivity, but...

Who knows who uses it, anyway, even the little devil himself is not happy to use that kind of ugly pistol, and nine times out of ten, he will be pitted by this goods!

Kurt Doucet chose this dog skin plaster as one of the "final collections", and he was very discerning - in fact, it was all negotiated, and Anna Phillips would not take it from him.

Men and women are inherently different, and the choice of objects should take into account the senses of the audience.

Of course, if the next episode of the show is still in this mode of operation, then the "folk national treasure" will have to be selected by Anna, and the balance still needs to be done well.