Chapter 729: Leonardo da Vinci's Medusa
Currency and handicrafts, less is appreciation, but in the treasury is counted in "tons", except for shock, the rest is shock.
Nicole told Adjani that on the day she bought the half of the estate next door, she had discovered the most valuable gold coin treasure ever found in the United States, which was definitely the most sensational in recent decades!
Good luck is bursting, auspicious stars are shining, and there is never a shortage of miracles in your own men!
Open another warehouse, or a mountain of stacked boxes.
"It's basically all kinds of jewelry and antiques, either precious metals or gemstones.
These are also more troublesome, there are hundreds of crowns and crowns alone, God knows what era, which country, it is impossible to figure out the origin of them all.
There are also hundreds of sacks of gold and silverware, and it is estimated that it will always be a mystery, and I don't know what many of them were originally for......"
I don't understand, if you count hundreds of boxes of other kinds of jewelry, not to mention the earthlings, the Martians will be dizzy when they come.
After looking at a few crowns at random, Zhang Nan pointed to the boxes that were released separately and said, "These are all gemstones, diamonds, ruby sapphires, and emeralds."
Originally, there were many more discoveries than that, and I asked our chief jewelry appraiser and designer to choose once, and most of the less high-grade gems had been sent to Xingchen Company for whitewashing.
The ones that are left here are all of high quality and larger particles, and they are all tuned, and the company can't use them so much. ”
Open a box at random, and inside are boxes of different sizes, with labels on them.
This box is full of diamonds, not to mention the rest, 5 to 6 carats in weight, almost the same grade is a bag, more than a kilogram!
"The appraiser didn't have enough time, so he roughly divided the points. By the way, Brown and Joshua only knew about the gems, not the treasures of the Third Reich, and never came here. ”
Too much to deal with.
Zhang Nan has the world's second largest diamond mining group, the wool diamond market has been able to compete with De Beers, and the "Xingchen Jewelry Group" is expanding everywhere, and those "low-grade" gems that Zhang Nan is not very eye-catching can just be digested.
With the expansion of his own jewelry industry group, in addition to the top gemstones, goods such as carat diamonds have completely lost the meaning of collecting for themselves.
In addition to a few African countries that will be in chaos in less than two years, as well as the Soviet Union and China, 90% of the large-scale diamond mines that will be discovered by mankind in the next 20 years or so are already in their own hands, and according to the historical mining plan and the world market demand, it can be mined at least until 2040!
As for the after......
Until that day, there will still be half a century, and in such a long period of time, if its own diamond group can't find enough follow-up mines, then it should get out of the diamond mining industry!
With so many super diamond mines in place, will there be a shortage of high-quality diamonds?
As for the other gems, normal trade is enough, not to mention that the treasury is enough for the family to use for thousands of years.
Don't be too greedy, too much will become a stone.
In the warehouse next door, there are still a handful of jewelry and boxes of banknotes: dollars and pounds in the thirties and forties, and it is better to keep them for money and maybe one day take some out as antiques.
“...... Nazi forgeries, or imitation pounds and dollar bills, were worth tens of thousands of dollars.
But there's too much here, so let's put it first. ”
Too much is worthless, but fortunately, Zhang Nan is not short of money.
In the sixth storeroom are sculptures and other antiques, ancient Greek, ancient Roman, medieval, Renaissance, modern times, a small number of Chinese and Middle Eastern, Near East cultural relics are also placed here.
Mountains of literature, books and other antiques are also a storehouse.
There is also a storehouse that is the most special, there are very few things, but they are all related to the concentration camp, and those gold teeth and wedding rings are placed there.
When leaving the underground treasure house, Adjani said, "Alan, Nicole, I feel that things are still open, so as not to be served in a pot." ”
Nicole smiled and said, "I've thought about it for a long time, don't we still have a private island?" ”
Tonight's experience is enough for Adjani and Alice to digest for a while, and then talk about it when the opportunity is right in the future.
You know, even Nicole and Jenny haven't really seen how terrifying those riches hidden on private islands in the Mediterranean are!
It was only 9 o'clock, and little Lily went to bed, and it was Charlie who accompanied her. But even Adjani didn't have a habitual rest, so she went to Zhang Nan's study again.
didn't let anyone else accompany them, just this family of five.
The chronograph of the Napoleonic family, Hitler's watch and gun, and the scepter of the Reich Marshal......
The two women looked numb.
Finally, opening the huge safe inside the wall, Zhang Nan took out a round "shield", which was about 50 centimeters in diameter.
"Medusa!"
Alice said it directly, but Adjani was a little confused: "The shield" is actually a painting drawn on a round board, with a strange human head emerging from the middle of a pile of rocks!
The head is covered with locusts, lizards, bats, and a few poisonous snakes!
"This is Medusa? ”
Adjani is like this, sometimes straightforward, you must know that in the Greek mythology of the Taoist tradition, Medusa's head seems to be decorated on the shield by Athena in the end, but it is a head full of poisonous snakes, and the monster on the "shield" in front of him does not look like it at all.
"This is Leonardo da Vinci's Medusa, which is written in the record, and has been missing for at least 400 years. ”
After listening to Alice, Zhang Nan pointed to the lower left corner of the "shield" and said, "Da Vinci signed all his signatures, and he didn't hide it at all." ”
Sure enough, there was a signature there, and a little closer look could tell.
At this time, Jenny said: "Carbon 14 has been measured, and the oil paint is 1465 years old for 15 years." This substrate is made of wood and is the same age. ”
Zhang Nan put the oil painting on the desk, it was quite thick and a little heavy!
Alice admired it as a pilgrimage, and said as she watched: "As long as the measurement is okay, it should be the real work of Leonardo da Vinci!"
It is generally believed that Leonardo da Vinci began to learn from Verrocchio in 1467, when he was already 15 years old.
He was a genius, and two years later, at the age of 17, he completed his first legendary work, this Medusa.
It was thought that the original painting of this painting has not survived, and only Michelangelo Caravaggio's "Medusa" painted in 1597 is said to have copied Leonardo da Vinci's original painting.
However, many people are skeptical of this claim, because there was a record of Leonardo da Vinci's process of making this painting.
It seems to have been written by a famous painter of Leonardo da Vinci's time, and I can't remember who it was......"
Zhang Nan interrupted Alice's words and asked, "How did you say that?"
Zhang Nan was very curious: I had determined that this was the authentic work of Leonardo da Vinci, which was based on the signature and the determination of carbon 14, as well as the master's skills, but I had not heard of any records.
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