Lao Zhao rolled his eyes and said, "Although this thing is not real. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but the workmanship is meticulous! I have never seen such a meticulous carving! Even if it is a high imitation, it is also the craftsmanship of a bronze master! The starting price of this object is low, but I will definitely not sell it if it is less than 50,000 yuan!"

"It's really not good, I'll throw money at myself to stop the bid! Anyway, the little girl of the Tai family said that there will be no handling fee for this auction!"

A few rich people around laughed and said: "It turns out that Lao Zhao is trying to save a fee! You can be careful, I will shoot this thing back as an ashtray, and then tell your story to everyone!"

Lao Zhao is also a shameless master who asks for money: "As long as the price is right, then whatever!"

The bronze tripod sent by Lao Zhao looks square and full of antiquity. The rust on it also looks like it's real. It's not at all like yesterday's bronzes, which catalyzed the traces of rust that came out of the day after tomorrow.

The bronzes in China are all cultural relics protected by the state. Absolutely no outflow is allowed. The newly unearthed ones are also owned by the state. It's just that it was unearthed a long time ago, but the people who went to the people are not very easy to manage. After all, this thing has become a personal property after being passed down for a long time. Disrespect is always bad.

This kind of thing, occasionally flowing in the hands of the top rich, is also a normal thing.

However, the number of such hand-me-downs is extremely rare. The vast majority are still in museums. As a result, many wealthy people began to buy everywhere in order to be vassal and elegant. And where there is a market, there is a product.

Antique dealers, in order to make a fortune from the wealthy who bought these things, have begun to use modern technology to imitate fakes. With the power of modern science and technology. and the advancement of metal processing techniques. It is not too difficult to imitate the bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties by modern means.

The difficulty is how to make this modern imitation of a fake the same as the real thing. And between the true and the fake, the most important thing is the rust traces of the bronzes.

As a result, all kinds of folk masters who have studied metals have shown their magical powers like eight immortals crossing the sea. If you don't pay attention to it, you will mix animal urine, manure or agricultural fertilizer with soil, apply it to the surface of the imitation and bury it in the soil. After waiting for ten days and half a month, when it is dug out, it will definitely be rusty and you can't see it.

If you pay attention to it, you will use acid, alkali, salt and other chemicals mixed with metal powder to smear on the surface of the imitation, or use glue, rosin, white syrup, varnish and other gels to mix various ore powders and pigments and apply them to the copperware. Even, you can use the prepared mineral pigments to melt on the surface of the copperware, so that the melted pigments can solidify on the surface of the copper after cooling. Trying to make a pseudo-rust that is the same as the real rust.

It's all the same way. The most costly and difficult thing to distinguish the authenticity of the bronze is to transplant or inlay the rust on the bronze to the surface of the imitation, and then use various methods to plant the rust to make the rust.

This rust, which is almost indistinguishable from the real thing, is extremely difficult to distinguish. Not to mention some experts who can't do it, even some disconnected instruments will be deceived.

Therefore, like Lao Zhao, there are many rich people who have suffered losses and been deceived. Moreover, today's antique dealers have also broken through the sky in terms of acting skills. The acting skills of the stall in Pan Jiayuan are not better than the little fresh meat in the Mingjing Film Academy.

It is said that this old Zhao is also a shrewd person. Otherwise, you can't do such a big business. However, when I went shopping that time, I was still choked by these people's supernatural acting skills.

Before the Chinese New Year, Lao Zhao took a walk around Panjiayuan. I picked and chose from several stalls, and after asking the price for a long time, I didn't pick a thing I liked. He often wanders around this place, and in terms of eyesight, he has a little bit. Ordinary evils will not be used.

After wandering around for a long time, when Lao Zhao wanted to leave, a man with thief eyebrows and rat eyes, roe head and rat eyes, not very tall, patted Lao Zhao on the shoulder, like a vendor selling some kind of disc, lowered his voice, and asked, "Sir, do you want a plate? Uh, no, do you want the real thing?"

Lao Zhao glanced at this person and felt that the person in front of him was not a big threat to him, even if he had a blade on his body, he couldn't beat him who was exercising all day. Even if he has an accomplice, he can turn around and run, besides, there is a driver waiting in his car!

In any case, there won't be too many problems with security.

Lao Zhao glanced at this guy and asked, "What is the real thing?"

The man said, "Boss, if you want the real thing, come with me! Lao Zhao was curious, so he planned to follow this buddy to have a look. After all, this antique market is not without this kind of gray business.

Some people have things in their hands that come from improper ways. Either stolen goods, or newly unearthed. Selling it on a stall is purely looking for your own death. So, I can only wander around this place and contact some big people who seem to have spare money and can afford to buy what they have on hand.

Lao Zhao has also been accosted before. The things I bought were real and fake, and I also picked up a few small leaks. Therefore, I am not excluded from this matter. Lao Zhao followed this person around the street for a long time and got into a roadside van.

Then, the man with rat eyes and roe head and rat eyes, not very tall, took out a few things from the broken cardboard box of the van. One of them is the bronze that Lao Zhao sent for auction today. Lao Zhao himself has some knowledge of antiques, and among the wealthy merchants, he can be regarded as half an expert.

Moreover, because I wander around this place all day long, I have a lot of experience in the rivers and lakes. Knowing that these people do not necessarily have real things in their hands. However, sometimes in order to dig holes for fishing, sugar coating and cannonballs are mixed in, and real and fake objects are mixed and sold.

Lao Zhao looked at the few objects that the man took out, and found that only two things should be real. One is a pair of relatively well-preserved women's jewelry from the former Qing Dynasty. Although it is only silver, the handiwork is old. The gray-black oxide layer produced by silver for a long time is also difficult to fake.

It's just that the value of this thing is low, and Lao Zhao can't use it. So I didn't ask for it.

The other one is this bronze tripod that is full of antiquity and has no problems no matter how you look at it. It was the first time Lao Zhao had seen something so charming. So, I bargained with the man and spent 200,000 yuan to win the bronze tripod. The man who bought the bronze tripod still said that he had lost money.

This bronze tripod doesn't look big, but the weight is not light. Lao Zhao held this tripod and asked the driver to take him all the way to the Mingjing Museum to find a familiar expert to identify. And go through the instrument. to determine the authenticity of this thing.