The eye of heaven was still open, and Huo Sining could clearly see the lilac aura faintly floating on the set of stamps in front of him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even if you don't know stamps, Huo Sining knows that this edition of stamps is definitely an old antique.

The Ministry of Industry of Shanghai was a modern postal service organization established by the administrative authorities at the end of the Qing Dynasty after the illegal occupation of Shanghai by Britain and the United States and the establishment of a public concession.

In other words, this edition of the stamp in her hand has a history of hundreds of years.

Even Huo Sining was a little speechless, from changing the stamp book to buying the ivory carving Guanyin, she was unintentional these two times, but she picked up two big leaks in a row.

Not to mention what kind of name is hidden in the paper ball in that wax pill, the value of this stamp in her hand alone is definitely not low.

Thinking of the old man who was a liar selling postal brochures, Huo Sining was angry and funny.

That person is really a typical example of buying and returning pearls, obviously holding something worth millions in his hand, and he wants to exchange it for the cheap garlic bottle with her, but he really picked sesame seeds and lost watermelon.

However, Huo Sining was very satisfied with the ghost market in the imperial capital this time, and even picked up two big leaks, and this luck couldn't stop it.

Although she was holding the stamp in her hand, Huo Sining began to worry again, she could still put the wax pill in the storage space and hide it, but she really didn't understand this stamp?

After thinking about it, she decided to go to her master's house, and when she arrived at Zhou's house, Zhou Shitao was wiping a purple clay pot, and when she saw Huo Sining coming in, her eyes lit up, and her originally expressionless face showed a little smile.

Huo Sining was eager to know how much the stamp in his hand could be sold for, so he took out the Qingtan rice paper from his bag and handed it to Zhou Shitao, and said with a somewhat flattering smile: "Master, you can help me take a look at this thing." ”

Zhou Shitao was still a little careless, but when he saw the stamp in Huo Sining's hand, he was taken aback, and the purple clay pot in his hand was almost unable to hold it.

In the antique circle for decades, Zhou Shitao has seen countless fake dragon stamps, aside from the sample stamps, the original stamps and the printed matter printed with the stamp pattern to repunch the perforations and other alterations, he has even seen a kind of special imitation of the dragon stamps to pass off the real thing.

When he was just learning to appreciate treasures as an apprentice, there was a Shanghainese who printed a batch of Dalong stamps and sold them as genuine, and many people believed them to be true.

That batch of stamps at that time was hyped to a sky-high price, a small number of sample stamps are still being collected at home as a variant of the dragon stamps, but I don't know that those stamps were later punctured one by one, in front of the real thing, those imitations are just laughing and generous.

Touching antiques and appreciating antiques relies on experience, and after seeing more and touching for a long time, there is naturally a feeling of distinguishing the real from the fake.

Zhou Shitao had never seen the real Dalong Post, but as soon as Huo Sining took out the version of the stamps, he intuitively felt that those stamps were real, and suddenly he felt a shock all over, and his eyes showed shock.

The old man wore reading glasses, took clean gloves and put them on, and then carefully pinched the edge of the rice paper, for fear of leaving fingerprints on the stamp.

Holding a magnifying glass on the genuine stamps carefully for nearly ten minutes, Zhou Shitao was very sure that the whole page of ten stamps in front of him is not a reprint, not a commemorative edition, not an imitation, but the real first edition of the "Shanghai Ministry of Industry Dalong stamps".

"This ...... Where did you get these stamps?"

The old shopkeeper's voice was a little vibrato, and his hands trembled slightly.

In 1863, the board of directors of the Shanghai Concession Bureau organized the establishment of the Shanghai Correspondence Hall of the Ministry of Industry, which was responsible for receiving and sending letters from South China, Japan, Europe and the United States.

Two years later, the first set of stamps in China's commercial port was issued, that is, the first edition of the Dalong stamps of the Ministry of Industry.

However, because it was only used as an outgoing letter at that time, it was printed in very small quantities and was not sold publicly.

Although the Ministry of Industry later printed a reprint of the Dragon stamps, but compared with the first edition of the Ministry of Industry stamps, the value is a big difference.

It is very rare to be able to collect a stamped edition, like a full set of unstamped promissory notes in Huo Sining's hand, which is extremely difficult to collect, and is one of the treasures coveted by countless philatelists.

Huo Sining did not understand the true value of this set of stamps, but Zhou Shitao knew very well.

It was because he knew that he was so shocked.

"This is the one I picked up in the ghost market yesterday, Master, is this stamp valuable?"

Huo Sining saw Zhou Shitao's cautious appearance and had a bottom in his heart, the old man has seen a lot of things for so many years, and he has touched countless things, and he really hasn't seen the old man so serious, so it can be seen that the value of these stamps is not low.

"What? You mean yesterday's booklet?!"

Zhou Shitao's eyes widened suddenly, and emotions such as shock, embarrassment, guilt and happiness flashed in his eyes.

He also passed through the booklet, he pulled it out of Huo Sining's backpack, and at that time he sneered at Huo Sining's purchase of tattered and worthless, who knew that this girl would get such a set of treasured stamps as soon as she turned around, and gave him a resounding slap.

Zhou Shitao felt a little hot on his face, but when he saw such a delicate and precious stamp, he was reluctant to let go:

"This is the earliest edition of our Chinese stamps, unpostmarked, precious!"

"You girl is so lucky, even this can be discovered! Master, I am really old, but I can't compare to you young people's eyes! How much did the person who sold your stamp book charge you?"

Huo Sining shook his head: "The money was confiscated, I exchanged it for a Qing Dynasty blue and white garlic bottle." ”

In fact, they also paid an extra 1,000 yuan to themselves, Huo Sining didn't dare to tell the old man, for fear that his master would be stimulated.

"Hmph, that person was just afraid that he was blind, thinking that these things were worthless, and he saw the garlic bottle in your hand, so he deliberately blinded you, a little girl, right?"

Zhou Shitao is familiar with the world and human nature, and nodded Huo Sining's forehead with a smile: "You can sell well, that person doesn't know the goods, you just push the boat along the river, right? You girl has always been clever, and you will definitely not let yourself suffer if you have such a big advantage!"

Huo Sining's forehead suddenly had a black line, Zhou Shitao really understood her, although he didn't know about the postal brochure, he guessed the truth of the matter just from Huo Sining's words.

However, she would not admit that she had made a mistake in the middle, and pouted and said: "It's not that I have to change his things, it's that person who has bad intentions and wants to cheat the garlic bottle in my hand." (To be continued.) )