Seeing that Duke Mountbatten was using a tool to gently scrape the rusty pimples on the base of the bronze mirror, Director Ouyang and Lin Feng were almost about to call out on the spot, but Mountbatten himself was stunned for a moment.

Because the rusty bumps on the base of the bronze mirror did not fall off as he expected, but could not be scratched at all?

At this time, the auctioneer of the on-site auction also took the opportunity to take the microphone and introduced:

"This is a way to examine bronze objects, and if the rust of the bronze is forged by modern people, it can be easily scraped off, and it is only after thousands of natural accumulation of rust that it is as strong as steel. ”

Old Marlone and the other experts all stared at Duke Mountbatten's hand carefully, thinking that they could see the scene of rust falling, but to their surprise, they all found that Mountbatten's hand was trembling slightly, obviously secretly exerting force.

But the rust bumps of the bronze mirror did not move at all, and not even a little rust residue fell off.

This not only surprised Lao Ma Long and others, but how could it be? This bronze is obviously fake, why can't this rusty lump be scraped off?

Director Ouyang suddenly felt a burst of excitement in his heart, looked at Su Huai and thought, could it be that the fake cultural relics created by Su Shengren couldn't even be identified by Duke Mountbatten?

You must know that this Duke Mountbatten has really grown up in the cultural relics circle since he was a child, and his rich experience is unmatched in the cultural relics appraisal industry.

Seeing that Mountbatten was deflated, Director Ouyang suddenly laughed and said: "Duke Mountbatten, you have been checking for a long time, have you had any results? I heard that this method is the best way to detect the authenticity of bronzes, you can directly announce the results~"

The Chinese audience was excited, could it be that the bronze mirror taken out by the Su Sage was still a genuine Shang and Zhou cultural relics!?

Duke Mountbatten was a little unwilling, picked up the bronze mirror and turned it upside down to observe, the bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties were all poured with many pieces of clay inside and outside, and it was impossible for the fan to fit tightly between the fan, there would always be a small gap.

When the copper juice invades these gaps during pouring, it will form stubble on the surface of the artifact, which is very inconspicuous and easy to be overlooked, but in the eyes of connoisseurs, it is one of the signs to distinguish authenticity, but soon, Mountbatten was disappointed to find that there was also a stubble on the edge of the base of the bronze mirror......

Mountbatten was surprised in his heart, but he didn't show it at all, put down his tools, shook his head, and said:

"Director Ouyang's words are wrong, you only know one thing, you don't know the other, although this rust is a very standard for judging authenticity, but it is not impossible to be fake. ”

Speaker Brown frowned as he listened, and said in a deep voice: "Please explain it to Mr. Duke, lest everyone think that you are making excuses to prevaricate." ”

You didn't check the flaws, so you made excuses, you didn't exist as a referee.

Duke Mountbatten's face was calm, and he sighed and said:

"In fact, our group has been engaged in the cultural relics business for so many years, and we have seen a lot of fake cultural relics, a considerable part of which are difficult to distinguish between authenticity and falsehood, such as the rust of this bronze, which is indeed a very iconic judgment method, but now the counterfeiters have developed a method to quickly make rust.

They called this method 'pit rust', that is, burying the newly made bronzes in the pit, baking the pit soil hot, pouring old vinegar, and then burying the soil, it does not take a week to make the same rust as the old bronzes.

The addition of different chemicals has different rusts, and I believe that the people who cheat also know this method. ”

The Chinese audience at the scene listened to the heartbeat, obviously this Duke Mountbatten is not blind...... Could it be that Mr. Su really faked?

Since Mountbatten knew this method, it was clear that there was another way to identify it.

Looking at Mountbatten's gaze, Su Huai didn't react, in fact, Mountbatten was not right, the forger used the acid pit technique to "bite" the patina, but he would never be able to make such a big "rust pimple".

But if he Su Dasheng used this point of view to refute Mountbatten's accusations, then everyone would think, why did he Su Sage know about these "fake" methods?

Sotheby's Group appraises cultural relics every day, and it is not surprising that it knows the methods of counterfeiting, but if he Su Sage is not making fake cultural relics, he should never know about these.

So Mountbatten deliberately said something wrong, just hoping that he would refute it, Su Huai smiled secretly in his heart, come to this, I'm not so stupid, I have the ability to find out the flaws myself.

I'm afraid you can't imagine it, although this bronze mirror is fake, but the rusty lump is real, this is the rust piece that Leng Zhe picked up from the batch of cultural relics that Chairman Fan retrieved before, and pasted it directly on the fake.

Unless you smash the bronze mirror, you won't be able to see what tricks are used.

Duke Mountbatten saw that Su Huai did not refute, but just looked at him calmly, slightly disappointed in his heart, nodded to the experts behind him, and saw a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes with an angry face walking out.

It was none other than Fermat, a director of Sotheby's and a consultant for cultural relics.

Last time, Su Huai and Fermat were on the issue of formulating a dictionary of Chinese characters, because of the oracle bone inscription, Fermat suffered a loss at that time, and he had already held his breath to grab Su Huai's pigtails, and this time he finally had a chance.

Fermat stepped forward, his face confidently wearing his gloves, scrutinizing the bronze mirror, and then reaching out and slowly touching the groove under the base.

Then he picked it up again and looked at it with a magnifying glass.

At this time, Speaker Brown couldn't help but ask, "Consultant Fei, what are you checking for?" ”

Old Malone came out with a dry cough and played the role of this science popularizer, Dao;

"Let me introduce to you, in fact, the reason why our consultant Fei did this is that the base of this bronze mirror often has an inscription, and the authenticity can be roughly judged from the content of the inscription, the glyph, and the coordination of the text and other parts.

The inscription is either convex or intaglio, the edges are uneven, and it is difficult for a fake to be seamless when it is old.

Often there are flaws in the joints of the edges.

It's just that this identification method requires a deep foundation in inscription discrimination, and there are only two experts in our entire group who can do this, and Fermat Consultant is one of them. ”

Old Malone blew a bull for Sotheby's Group for a long time, but Fermat didn't see a flaw for a while, which made Old Malone slightly embarrassed.

At this time, seeing that Fermat's face was full of solemnity, he took out a piece of cotton paper, rolled it into a paper tube, sprayed some water on it, and then stuffed the cotton paper into the groove of the base, and used a small mallet to gently hammer it, and after a while, the text under the base was printed on the paper.

He took it out and looked at it for a long time, but he still couldn't get the point, with a look of surprise in his eyes, and finally he could only shake his head at Duke Mountbatten, saying that he couldn't see any problems.

Duke Mountbatten's heart suddenly secretly screamed that it was not good, who didn't know that their Sotheby's Group is an authority on the identification of cultural relics, and it would be too embarrassing to pick out this "fake cultural relic" today, but they could not identify where he faked......