Chapter 650: Antique Buyer

Early morning in Los Angeles. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

The hustle and bustle of the city doesn't affect the quiet of Beverly Hills.

The sky was pale blue, and a few thousand meters above the sky were filled with fine clouds.

The vegetation releases fresh air, and the green grass leaves are stained with dew.

The gardener picks the freshly blooming yellow tulips from the flower room and gives them to the uniformed maid to decorate the house.

The old godfather, Marlon Brando's Pallas cat, is running to play again.

After a long time of experimentation with Pooh, and after mixing the two, they are now riding on its back and taking a leisurely walk in the garden.

Pooh occasionally turned his head and opened his mouth, and the waiter who followed him immediately fed it plain beef jerky.

The Pallas cat, who had been greedy for a long time, also got a piece, and was afraid that the fat man sitting next to him would snatch it, so he quickly stuffed it into his mouth and rolled his eyes in a choked manner......

Han Xuan was in the garage, taking Anya to see the fossils of the Tyrannosaurus rex and the dinosaur eggs.

They were still in crates, and the manor didn't have enough space for the fossil, which was too big to be damaged in the open.

When Anya School arranged to go to the Natural History Museum, she did not go to class, and today is the first time she has seen a dinosaur fossil.

On the fair-skinned and pink little face, it was rare to show the emotion of "shock", reached out with his fingers, carefully touched the skull of the Tyrannosaurus rex, and asked Han Xuan: "They are so strong, why are they extinct?"

"Dinosaurs are not extinct.

Some scientists have found that today's birds evolved from some small dinosaurs, and they still live around us, but their appearance has changed.

The Tyrannosaurus rex was too large to adapt to the earth's climate change, and some unexpected disasters occurred at the time, so they quickly perished.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest, nothing lasts forever, including us humans.

Maybe one day, other highly intelligent creatures will also have to find traces of us in fossils and wonder if humans have really lived on the earth. ā€

That's a very profound statement, worthy of a writer.

Several fossils of Archaeopteryx have been found in the world, which are considered evidence of the evolution of dinosaurs into birds in the late Jurassic period.

They are in major museums, and I haven't heard of any private collectors who have them, otherwise I can help you find them.

But this time, I found two fossils that are no worse than this Tyrannosaurus rex, and I know you like this, so I specially collected them for you, Han. ā€

The middle-aged man named Noah is one of the old man's antique buyers, which is equivalent to the middleman of antique trading.

This Tyrannosaurus rex fossil is what he sold, and Han Xuan met him last month.

At that time, Han Xuan said that there were good things to help him keep, and today Noah got the news that Han Xuan was coming to Los Angeles, and hurriedly came to the door.

"What makes you so happy.

Show it to me, and if you like it, I'll buy it. ā€

Han Xuan turned around, threw out the ball toy, asked Obama, Snoopy, and Little Black Panther to pick it up, and asked Noah.

"It's really good stuff this time.

In order to find it, a private archaeological team spent six years in Africa and lost three members to find it.

The fossil is a new species discovered by scientists just a few decades ago, and the emperor crocodile that lived in the early White Age, has not appeared anywhere else except in Africa.

Only the skull part has been preserved, and even if it is, it is the best-preserved fossil of the emperor crocodile.

The length of that head is 1.55 meters, which is much larger than the head of a crocodile today!"

Noah danced with his hands and gestured to the size, his tone exaggerated.

Han Xuan knew the emperor crocodile, and he also knew that this fossil was indeed a good thing.

They may have lived by preying on dinosaurs, and more than 100 million years have passed since the time when emperor crocodiles survived.

The figure of 100 million is enough to explain too much.

Moved by his heart, he asked Noah: "Can you guarantee that it is true? How much money does it cost for the other party to be willing to sell?"

"I scraped some powder from the fossil fragments at random and asked the experts to compare them with the results of the 1966 study, and it was definitely true, and they didn't dare to sell me fake things. ā€

Noah is estimated to have been mixed, doing his business in black and white, speaking in a tone that is not small, full of confidence: "The asking price is two million seven thousand dollars."

The price is not bad, there are not many people who like to collect fossils, but there are definitely people who like the fossils of emperor crocodiles.

According to the old rules, if you buy it, I take a 4% cut of this price. ā€

"Okay, have someone bring it over, I don't have the check with me, I'll give it to you later. ā€

Han Xuan took out the toy ball from Snoopy's mouth with his tail wagging and threw it out again, "Didn't you say that there are two things, and what is the other one?"

Under the watchful eye of the bodyguards, in order to show that he had no malicious intent, Noah handed the handbag to Gabriel, and said, "Please help me take out the black box inside." ā€

Gabriel gave him an appreciative look, took the bag, moved away, and unzipped it to find the box he was talking about.

After opening it, I was amazed.

Walked over and returned the bag to Noah and handed the box to Han Xuan.

Han Xuan opened it curiously, and looked down to see that there was a yellowish amber inside.

Tens of millions of years ago, the coniferous plants left a lot of resin fossils in the world, and they are collectively known as amber.

Anyone who has watched Jurassic Park knows that the dinosaur blood was extracted from a mosquito sealed in amber.

In this piece of amber, about the size of a ping-pong ball, the creature is not a mosquito, but a snail.

The appearance is not much different from the small snails often seen on the ground today.

Seeing that Han Xuan was not very interested, Noah introduced: "The snail in it, which lived 100 million years ago, is the earliest creature found from resin fossils.

Half a month ago, it was found in an area of Lebanon where a lot of amber had been excavated, and there are very few in the world.

It cost me $600,000 to buy it from someone else.

If you want, I will sell it to you at this price, after all, I have already made a lot of money from your grandfather, and I will have the opportunity to cooperate again in the future and make friends. ā€

"Okay, Mr. Noah, I bought it. ā€

Han Xuan didn't say much, Noah can sometimes get millions of dollars in commissions for a single business, and he is also a rich man, so he doesn't care about this little money.

He handed the box of amber to Anya to see, went to the sink to wash her hands, and took the handkerchief brought by Lola, the maid, to wipe it.

looked at Noah: "I bought one in New York a few years ago, the twelve zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace in China, there should be eleven more similar things."

Tigers, cows, and monkeys appeared in the 80s, but I later learned that it was too late to buy them.

I kind of like the kind of sculpture that blends Eastern and Western craftsmanship, a million dollars, from you.

No matter how much money you buy back, I buy it at this price.

They have a special appearance, you should be able to find them, right?"

Noah reached out and touched his pocket, as if he wanted to smoke, but remembering that Han Xuan was here, he gave up again, and said: "I remember the news of that auction, the sculpture of the horse at that time was sold for more than 900,000 US dollars, right?"

After such a long time, it has appreciated, and it is a bit difficult to buy it for a million dollars......"

"No, no, no, at that time, my grandfather didn't have his current status, because he liked it, he was deceived by the auction company.

They're the most shameless, they'll do anything to sell something, you know.

Those sculptures weren't worth a million dollars at all, and if it weren't for the use of some precious metals or the work of Lang Shining, almost no one would want them.

When the other three were auctioned in 1987, the highest price was $230,000, and now it is estimated to be around $500,000.

You still have to earn, and that extra money is to be used as a reward for finding them. ā€

Noah had collected a lot of Chinese antiques for Mr. Han, and it was easy to estimate the value of those "ordinary" sculptures.

You can earn at least $400,000 for buying one, and maybe more.

Stretched out his hand and said, "Happy cooperation, I'll go back and ask my friends, I should have news for you soon." ā€

"Jason, give him my business card.

Then I'll wait for your call, Mr. Noah.

Now I'm going to give you the money for these two fossils, plus a deposit of a million dollars......" (To be continued.) )