Every cultural relics management unit will have a warehouse, I don't know, from the 80s to the mid-90s, what is the actual situation of the management of each cultural management unit?

At that time, there were so many cultural relics and old things in the warehouses of the cultural relics management committees in various places that even the museums of sub-provincial cities could not fit most of them, let alone the county-level cultural management committees. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

99.9% of the county has no museums, and the finest cultural relics are sent, while relatively ordinary things can only accumulate dust in the warehouse.

But the people sent it, the construction company dug it up, and the scrap recycling station sent it...... After a while, the warehouse will get to the point where it has to be cleaned!

Beginning in the early 90s, county-level units will also come up with cultural relics stores, and those old things that can't be piled up, can still be used, and are not too up-to-date, are either taken away and bought by acquaintances and related households, or put in cultural relics stores for sale.

A lot of it is for nothing!

In the mid-90s, Zhang Nan entered the warehouse of a county-level cultural management committee: the basement was full of things, jade, porcelain, miscellaneous... There's everything. At that time, there were thousands of kilograms of copper coins piled on the ground at random, and he weighed more than 20 catties of Song coins, which was twice the market price of scrap copper at that time.

As a result, a year later, I went to the warehouse again, and found that in addition to the bottles and cans dug out of the ground, there were still there, not to mention that the thousands of kilograms of copper coins were missing, and there was nothing in them!

Even a large number of plates and bowls from the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China are missing!

Clean enough to starve mice!

When I asked, it was all sold at the artifact store!

"Sold?"

Zhang Nan will believe that there are ghosts!

As far as the sales volume of the cultural relics store is concerned, it can't be sold out at all! And it's all in a circle, can you understand the twists and turns inside?

Either the insiders themselves emptied it out for nothing, or they bought it in large quantities at a low price for related households like themselves.

As for the money?

Who knows where?

And it's not a foul to do so!

It would be a magical time for antiques.

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Here Zhang Nan was still chatting with Nong Bosheng, "By the way, Director Nong, do you still have any Western antiques left in your warehouse?"

"There are a few, but I haven't been in that little storeroom for more than 10 years, and I can't remember what else it is. ”

What's in the storeroom, the farmer has a lot in his head.

The agricultural curator returned from the Soviet Union in the 50s, because of the rarity of talents, there are few in the country, and he became the director of the exhibition hall within a few years, young and promising.

Although I have suffered a little during the special period, I still resisted, and this curator has been in office for 30 years!

As one of the first few treaty ports in China that was forced to open a port, Yongcheng entered very early with Western culture and architecture, and there were many in the Qing Dynasty!

At the time of the four old breaks, some Western-style buildings in the entire Yongcheng were also swept away, as for the things inside?

It's all in the storeroom!

What do you mean by "certain buildings"? Hehe, it's hard to say, just understand.

It's not a thing to pile it up, isn't it? It was useless at that time, how could there be those toys in the exhibition hall?

Then sell it!

A set of brand-new Western porcelain costs 5 yuan, a large Western pastel soup plate with a diameter of more than 40 centimeters costs 2 yuan, as for spoons, unformed plates and bowls, a few cents, a few cents... It was put out for sale in the yard of the unit.

Passers-by can buy it when they see it.

Of course, some things made of silver are not sold to individuals, so they have to be handed over to the bank and precious metals.

The traces of use are obvious, and no one wants them are finally piled up in the warehouse, and those new, daily porcelain daily necessities or something, basically sold for seven, seven, eight, eight.

This "new" only means that the traces of the use of the utensils are not obvious, not the meaning of "age".

You know, when those things are shipped to China, many of them are actually old toys.

The plates and bowls that were bought back by private individuals were slightly cheaper than the porcelain sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives -- they were not bought for home collection, they were really used to serve vegetables and eat, otherwise who would want them?!

Zhang Nan saw such a family in the 90s: when you invite guests to dinner, a large soup plate with stewed chicken is a piece of Western porcelain, which is very exquisite.

As a result, I was embarrassed to put down the chopsticks!

After studying for a long time, I asked where the things came from, and because I was related to the host's family, I finally said: "Auntie, after eating this time, don't take out this big bowl to serve soup, this thing is valuable, and it is not a big soup plate for vegetables at all." ”

"What's that?"

"Baptismal discs. ”

Dizzy, right?

It's so incredible!

The tray used by the family to serve fruit is just as magical as the large soup plate: a pair of Western-style crystal glass trays, most likely handmade from 19th-century Venice.

So what were they used for?

It is estimated that it is also a fruit, but it is definitely not a utensil used to entertain guests, because it is obviously a pair of "tribute plates".

Of course, there are not only these relatively special utensils that were stored in the warehouse when the four old days were broken, but also some ordinary Western-style items that were moved to the exhibition hall in some Western-style hotels and offices.

At that time, these Western toys were either sent to the exhibition hall, or they were thrown away and smashed in private, or they were waiting to get themselves in trouble!

Although Zhang Nan is not particularly interested in these Western porcelain, it would be good if his hilltop villa could be equipped with some old Western antiques, and the interior furnishings would be "local and foreign combination and trend".

Although you can buy it in the United States, it is troublesome to collect it everywhere, and you can't understand the price and transportation problems, so it is better to go to Yongcheng to buy a batch.

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Nong Bosheng thought about it for a while and said, "There should be a lot of porcelain and glass products, as well as some oil paintings and old furniture. A large part of those porcelain and glass products were not disposed of because they had traces of use, and there was a batch of them that were collected not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, because they were piled up in the innermost part and were not moved out.

Those oil paintings were supposed to be burned, but when I saw that some famous painters painted them, I didn't let them burn. ”

"Oil paintings?"

"Well, I remember that it was sent in the mid-50s, and there was still a batch of the four old ones, and those who had no name and no surname burned a batch of Jiaojiao, and the good ones are still there. For this, 20 years ago, I fought twice!

"Do you sell those paintings?"

Zhang Nan hurriedly asked.

"What you said, I remember, at the end of last year, the bureau also studied this problem, but it was determined that it could not be sold to foreigners, but it was looking forward to creating some foreign exchange. But these two things combined, these things can't be sold at all, and the common people have a few foreign exchanges? Xiao Zhang, I can sell them to you now!"

"Haha! I'll check it out then. I am now in the name of an overseas Chinese, but even if I buy something, I will never go abroad. If it really doesn't work, it's okay to ask my brother-in-law to come forward and use dollars directly. ”

"As long as you don't take it out of the country, everything is fine. You have made a great contribution to the country in this batch of bamboo slips, and it is a small meaning to buy some Western oil paintings. When the time comes, I will give you an estimate, and it will not be expensive for you. ”

Others know a little bit about it! It's not the agricultural curator himself who has the final say.

Can the Cultural Affairs Bureau earn foreign exchange? It's too late to be happy, and the payment is still in US dollars.