Chapter 220: Don't Look Down on People
Multiple friends have many paths, and the same is true for collectors, because you never know what surprises the other person will bring you. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the past, Zhang Nan had a very good relationship with the manager of the city bus company, and every year the bus company would have a large number of fake coins to be destroyed - there were many people and birds, not only fake coins, but also the things thrown into the bus coin box were really varied, and there were so many varieties that outsiders could not imagine at all!
Once a year, the warehouse is cleared, and the counterfeit money that is transported to the steel foundry for destruction is so large that the Public Security Bureau needs to send someone to escort it, and Zhang Nan will be asked to go backwards before this.
Cents, Hong Kong dollars, Australian dollars or something can be recognized, and the bus company employees who count the coins every day have generally used a piece of coins in their pockets and five cents to transfer the bag, but there are always some small surprises that will be discovered by Zhang Nan.
It's a kind of fun, maybe a small handful of coins and substitute coins are not worth enough for a manager friend to have a late-night barbecue, but this little fun is an essential part of the collection.
Otherwise, Zhang Nan will never become a collector, at most he can be regarded as an antique dealer.
Of course, he also knows the money counter of the bus company, and no matter whether it is worth it or not, he accepts it when people send it: he has saved several large cans of Hong Kong dollar coins with the Queen's portrait alone!
A small surprise appeared inadvertently: just like this time, if it weren't for the director of agriculture who took him to the non-ferrous metals import and export company to go around, Zhang Nan wouldn't have known that there would be antiques in this area.
These two industries seem to be unable to fight together, but in fact there will be intersections.
A bronze statue of Hanuman monkey in the style of Angkor Wat during the Angkor Dynasty, plus the bronze statue of the mother of the Buddha in the same period, there is not much market in China, but as long as it is related to Angkor, let alone 20 years later, it is estimated that the price will not be low in the international market.
And if you deliberately search for this kind of foreign cultural relics with religious overtones, unless you go to the museum, you may run all over the auction house, and you will not find a single one for decades!
These two things are turned out of the imported non-metallic pile, and the world is so wonderful and elusive......
Collect, and never look down on anyone you meet newly, because you never know what he will bring you.
Zhang Nan remembers hearing such a thing from a friend: there is a very famous and very old ancient porcelain collector and businessman in Hangzhou, who is definitely a wrist in the circle, and because of an inadvertent contempt for people, he not only lost a big customer, but also cut off a large source of collections.
One day, a friend of the provincial TV station introduced him to a person from the county and city below, saying that this person also played ancient porcelain, and it was good to know him.
The TV station friend didn't explain exactly what kind of "goods" that person was: but according to past experience, collectors estimated that the people from this small place wanted to know themselves and sell something.
Unfortunately, as soon as the person arrived, a friend from the TV station answered the phone, and he said goodbye first if there was an urgent matter in the unit.
As a result, the collector saw that the person left behind was only in his 30s, and the person looked a little lacking in atmosphere, and the person's economic conditions were not very good.
Look at the shoes of the people: The leather shoes of the people here are not only old, but also not shiny, and they are cheap and not maintained. This job is still a county-level radio host, and the collector is a little unattractive in his heart.
For the sake of my friend's face, I chatted casually to the effect that your place is small, and it is generally difficult to get any good goods; if you want to mix it up, you have to be in the provincial capital, once good things appear, you will send more to your side, and the collection must have enough funds to back up. As a person, if you have good things, I want them here, and if the grade is too low, you don't need it......
No one said much: he had never seen such a rich collection of collectors, some of the furnishings he could not name, and some of the porcelain kilns could not be recognized.
There is no way, the regional differences are there, and small places are also brilliant with local characteristics.
But I can still feel despised by others: he left after a cup of tea, he is not stupid, and it is not interesting to sit down more.
A few days later, the collector had dinner with a friend from the TV station, and when he talked about the host from that small place, the friend shook his head after hearing the collector's words, and said: "No wonder I called him later that day, and he casually said a few perfunctory words, it turns out that the problem is still with you."
I said, old man, how can you say hello! Your circle is a bit of a mouthful, but this time you are really blinded and offended. ”
Offending an inconspicuous little guy?
Collectors have seen a lot of such people, many of them are holding a broken bowl of dozens of yuan as a treasure, looking for him to sell it for a good price and get rich overnight.
As a result, a friend's remark made the collector regret it for a long time: his radio station was small, but because of the topography, it covered two complete counties, and those two counties were the collector's favorite celadon production areas.
There are thousands of excavators in the two counties combined, what do you say that means?
Of course, collectors know that many antiques are dug up by excavators, but what does that have to do with that person?
The friend directly snorted: "What's the matter? My eldest brother, don't you know that there are radios on the excavators?
The man has been a host for more than ten years, and many excavator people have listened to his program since they were seventeen or eighteen years old, and it was a talk show-like program, not a news broadcast. The host can casually talk about the mountains when he is free, and everyone knows that he likes antiques!
Nowadays, the radio station can also interact with WeChat, and thousands of excavators are his loyal fans, almost all of them call him brother when they interact, do you say it matters?
Almost every day, someone gave him something dug out of the ground, either selling him big things, or sending gadgets directly, at least asking him to help Changyan......"
The collector was stunned by his friend's remarks: the radio host, the excavator, the construction site and the ground goods could all be connected in a string!
He didn't expect that there would be a handover between these two eight-pole unbeatable trades, and the connection would be so deep!
"Brother, you will count on the tomb robbers in the future, and those cultural relics dealers can only know a few people after they go to the construction site, and they will be two battalions as soon as they make a move.
Don't think about it when you come out of the construction site, the good things in the two counties over there have to pass through his hands first!"
"I can't see it!"
The friend knew what he was thinking, and finally could only tell him: "Brother, you are a big collector, and I don't know what is going on." People have to run to the construction site twice in three days, so don't think that people will look like a fan, and it's not bad if you don't look like a small worker on the construction site. ”
Don't look down on people. (To be continued.) )