Chapter 33: The Underground Black Market (3)
With long hair and a bald head, he circled the field and finally put it on the booth, Chen Yan poked Tang Feng with his elbow and asked, "How is it?
"Who are you and me?" Tang Feng said, "I still come here if I can see this?"
The board brush head cleared his throat and said, "The reserve price is thirty-six thousand, and the boss who is interested in bidding can come up and have a look now." In order to facilitate the buyer's inspection, the bald head turned on the headlights above the booth.
Underground black market trading has its own rules, in order to avoid buyers from comparing with each other and buying the best and for the safety of the transaction, they will not put everything out at once, but will look at one piece and then change the next one.
The board brush head is also quite skillful, and the boss who is interested in bidding can now come up and take a look, the meaning is very clear, if you are not interested, then it will not bother you. After he finished speaking, some people who were interested in rubbing came to the booth to watch, according to the rules of the underground black market, this is called the first inspection, and a group of people lined up to see it. The time for the initial inspection is very short, and it is not allowed to touch, so it can only be said that it is a casual view.
Although the initial inspection can not be touched only to see, but buyers have their own methods, some wear reading glasses, some take mobile phones to take pictures for comparison, some people use high-tech, digital cameras to take pictures, laptops to check information, and then take photos on the laptop magnified dozens of times progressive scanning, there is a little flaw can not be hidden.
Although there were many people who participated in the initial inspection, the scene was very quiet, much more orderly than the museum, and they only communicated with their own people in a whisper, and did not express their position publicly. This is someone else's land, and it is not a wise choice to stir up trouble here, no, even Tang Feng, a "big mouth" from the countryside, is silent.
This is a framed inscription rubbing scroll, and in the identification of cultural relics, it is more difficult to identify the rubbing. The so-called rubbing, is to rub the calligraphy works engraved on the paper, because the stele is in the open air, easy to damage, the closer the age from the time of the monument to the rubbing, the clearer, the higher the value. China is the hometown of calligraphy, calligraphy works in the cross-strait three places has been high market, in 2004, Beijing Hanhai auction of the Yuan Dynasty Xian Yushu "Cursive Stone Drum Song" sold for 46 million yuan.
Tang Feng carefully observed this rubbing, the value of the rubbings of the stele is definitely not as good as the calligraphy written directly on the paper, and this is not a full-text rubbing. But as soon as Tang Feng looked at the title, he knew that if this rubbing was true, it would definitely be worth no less than one million, and if he ate 36,000, it would definitely be worth the money, because this was the rubbings of Master Meng's stele. Master Meng's stele comes from the hand of Chu Suiliang, one of the "Four Families of the Early Tang Dynasty", the original stone has been lost, and the heirloom is only the only copy of the old collection of Li Gongbo in Linchuan, which is now in Japan.
"Hey, what's going on?" Chen Yan asked Tang Feng for the third time, and Tang Feng whispered to him, "Sit down and talk." ”
Tang Feng and the others sat back in their seats, and after a while, the other people who participated in the preliminary inspection also sat back, and said politely: "Bosses, the bidding cards are all placed on the second floor of the coffee table, and now you can bid." ”
Don't look at this as an underground black market, everything is operating very formally, the market is becoming more and more standardized, and the underground black market must of course keep pace with the times.
"Do you want to ask for a price?" Chen Yan looked at Tang Feng with a sign in his hand, Tang Feng shook his head and said in a low voice: "Fake." "Tang Feng can now guarantee that this is a fake, because this rubbings of Master Meng's stele are annotated, and its inscription is the third year of Linde, and this inscription is like a bulldozer, pushing all the positive evidence in front of it.
Lin De is the name of Tang Gaozu Li Zhi, Li Zhi has a bad problem, like to change the year name, in his 33 years in power, has changed the year name more than a dozen times, and Lin De year is only two years in total, there is no Lin de three years this said, if you want to calculate how many years Lin de three years, that is 666 AD, when the year has been changed to Qianfeng, 666 is the first year of Qianfeng. Of course, this is not to say that if the inscription is the first year of the Qianfeng, this rubbing is genuine, and since the definite evidence of a fake has been found, there is no need to identify it further.
Antique counterfeiting is a long-lasting industry, and there are many famous counterfeiting sites in Chinese history. Fake ancient calligraphy and painting, ancient jade to Suzhou is the most famous, the jargon of Suzhou's fake antiques called Suzhou films, in addition to Yangzhou films, Guangzhou films, etc. From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, Beijing's forgery was also very famous, and the forgery of Beijing's Houmen Bridge was called Houmen Manufacturing. These are all professionals in the falsification, there are some famous people in it, in the Jiangnan area of the Ming Dynasty, even famous people like Tang Bohu and Zhu Yunming have participated in the falsification, and ordinary people can't see it at all.
There have been five collecting crazes in Chinese history, and this is also accompanied by five counterfeiting crazes, Chen Yan can understand why these turtle grandsons are not robbing now, selling fakes is huge profits, and money is more money than robbery.
"Thirty-six thousand!" "Thirty-seven!" is discussing here, and the quotation is still continuing over there, Tang Feng and they did not participate in the quotation, and they all listened to other people's discussions with their ears. As soon as Tang Feng heard the words of the two middle-aged people around him, he knew that these two were knowledgeable people, he was a little strange, this rubbing scroll was not difficult to identify, how could these two people quote upwards all the time?
The quotation was called to 38,000, and there were only four participants left, and a buyer spoke, he said: "The board brush head, I haven't determined the initial inspection, I just want to give it a go, see if I can pick up a leak, and then report it to the heart is not steady, can I re-test?"
It was obviously not the first time that the person who spoke came, and the board brush head said with a smile: "You can come up after you call thirty-six thousand." ”
"Earlier, I thought you had changed the rules?" the person who spoke walked to the booth, and after bidding, he was considered a potential buyer, and then he could re-inspect and take a closer look.
After the re-inspection was over, the quotation continued, and when it was forty-thousand, the two people beside Tang Feng gave up the quotation, and a middle-aged man whispered to his companion: "Forget it, there will be no profit if you report it again, after all, it is fake, and you can't fool people who know it." "Hey, these two bastards, they still want to buy it when they know it's fake, it turns out that they want to deceive people.
Eventually, the fake rubbing scroll was bought for forty-two thousand, and another fake went to market.
The next few things were real and fake, but Tang Feng and Chen Yan couldn't look at it, Chen Yan glanced at the short-haired woman, and said to Tang Feng: "Hey, they don't seem to be here to buy things." ”
Tang Feng said: "Don't just pay attention to her, there are a few people over there who have not bidd, just like us, they can't look down on her." "The things in the underground black market are more valuable the more you go to the back, don't look at the people in front of you jumping very high, and in the back, these people are basically sculptures.
The board brush head continued: "The next lot, the seal of Tongzhou County in the Tang Dynasty." ”
"Tongzhou County Seal. Chen Yan's eyes immediately lit up, and he said, "If this is an ancient official seal at home, how face-saving it is?"
Tang Feng said: "Don't worry, at least you have to figure out which Tongzhou it is." "There are two Tongzhou in Chinese history, and there is a very famous couplet that mentions Tongzhou, East Pawnshop, West Pawnshop, East and West Pawnshop, Nantong Prefecture, North Tongzhou, and North and South Tongzhou. The north and south Tongzhou here refer to the Tongzhou District of Nantong City in modern Jiangsu Province and the Tongzhou District of modern Beijing respectively. If this is the official seal of Beijing Gutongzhou, it is absolutely sought-after in the Beijing market, and Chen Yan is a native of Tongzhou, so it is normal to be interested in this.
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