Chapter Forty-Eight: Antique Cameras
"Please give me the radio with the lid open, I have to test if this watch is good......" Hong Tao picked up the big brick-like black instrument, first looked at the appearance, and then put the battery on, tried a few simple functions, not bad, the response of the pointer is quite sensitive, and the accuracy is okay.
"Cheng, I want this too, just return the 8 yuan to you, and give you another 2 pieces of 1o yuan. After testing a few originals, Hong Tao confirmed that the basic performance of the multimeter was still in good condition, so he took out two more banknotes and put them on the counter together with the 8 yuan he had just found himself. This watch costs 28, which is twice as fast as buying a new watch, and there is no difference in performance, this is half a month's salary, and you can eat several meals of Quanjude.
About an hour later, the eldest aunt walked in from outside with 3 young men, Hong Tao was taking Jin Yue to try on clothes in the store at this time, and he didn't bypass the eccentric salesman, let her keep taking all kinds of clothes for Jin Yue to try on, and toss her with her heart.
"Xiao Tao, who bullied you?" the eldest aunt didn't go in at all, and asked while standing at the door.
"Just the old man outside wearing a blue shirt and carrying a black schoolbag, no, the one sitting on the railing! He wants to rob me of the things I bought, and he is still holding me at the door!" Hong Tao saw that the eldest aunt was coming, and his confidence was immediately sufficient, and he ran to the door in a few steps, and saw that the old man really hadn't left, he was sitting on the guardrail on the side of the road and smoking, and his eyes were still staring at the door of the store from time to time.
"Let's go!" The aunt didn't say a word, and ran directly at the old man, saying that it was an old man, but in fact, he was about 5o years old, not as old as Hong Tao's grandfather.
"Hey...... What are you doing! What are you doing! Help! Hit someone!" The old man saw that someone was running towards him, and Hong Tao dared to come to the door, and immediately knew that the situation was wrong, and jumped off the railing and wanted to run, but the young man brought by the eldest aunt stopped him, and then threw his hand and threw a roll all over the ground.
"I tell you, don't wander around here in the future, let me see you once, hit you once, do you hear me! Fuck off!" The eldest aunt didn't beat him, but grabbed him by the collar by the neck, lifted him up from the ground with one hand, and then sent him forward, and slipped away again.
Compared with the bricklayer like the eldest aunt, who has been moving bricks and playing with brick knives since he was a teenager, the old man is like a little chicken, pulling one heel after another. He also knew that he was planted today, and none of the buddies on the side who often mixed together in the commission store dared to come up to help him, they all pretended not to know, and he could only get up by himself, and he didn't even dare to dust off the soil, so he crossed the road directly, rode a bicycle, and walked south.
"What good things have you bought? Let him be so concerned?" drove away the old man, and the eldest aunt asked the three young men to get in the car and wait for him first, and then walked to the door of the store, and quietly asked Hong Tao, now he was very curious about Hong Tao's every move.
"By the way, you can help me see what kind of wood this is. Since Hong Tao called his aunt-in-law, he didn't plan to hide it from him, and now these people in the family, the aunt-in-law belongs to the kind of person who has the most flexible brain, the most accepting of new things, and the most understanding of him.
"That's what you bought?42 yuan?" The eldest aunt watched Hong Tao lie on the ground, pulled out the black thing from under the big closet, looked at the number written on it, couldn't help but raise his voice by an octave, and his eyes also looked at the salesman at the counter, and the look was clearly saying: You are a child!
"This comrade...... He had to buy it...... It's none of our business...... "The salesperson is not stupid, hurry up and distinguish for himself."
"It's none of their business, I bought it myself, don't worry, come and see what kind of wood it is for me. Hong Tao tugged at his aunt's cuffs, and then pointed to the thing on the ground.
"This thing has been soaked in the asphalt bucket...... "The aunt reached out and touched it, then untied a bunch of keys from his belt, took out a folding electrician's knife, and began to click the asphalt on it.
"Slow down, don't scratch the wood. Hong Tao was a little distressed when he saw his aunt's action of opening and closing.
"Hi...... It's kind of interesting...... Come on, Xiao Tao, let's go up to the sun and take a look, you still know this thing!" The eldest aunt ignored Hong Tao?? Collect?? Punishment for the murder of the barrel of the rock, the slaughter of the bucket of the rock, the sorrow of the sword, the freezing of the death of the sword, the guilt and fatigue, the locust, the loc>ust, the loc"How is it, uncle, is it red sandalwood?" Hong Tao hurriedly took his multimeter and asked after him with Jin Yue's fart.
"**Not far from ten, this should be a shelf for a fish tank or a flower pot, I don't know who made it look like this, but it's not worth 42 yuan, right? The eldest aunt scraped off a piece of asphalt with a knife, looked at it carefully in the sunlight, and made a final confirmation. But he still doesn't understand, why did Hong Tao buy this thing, in his eyes, this kind of hardwood is the best woodworking tool, but the value is not enough for Hong Tao's money.
"Hey, hey, I'm useful, can you help me get the outer layer of asphalt down and clean it, but don't hurt the wood inside?" Hong Tao didn't tell his aunt about collection, appreciation, etc., and he couldn't understand it for a while, and it was useless to talk about it.
"This has to be wiped slowly with thinner, I'll take it back and get it for you, and send it to you with the parts another day, what else did you buy?"
"Multimeter!" Hong Tao held it up for his aunt to look at.
"Isn't this for electricians?"
"No, I plan to make my own radio, and when I'm ready, you can try it, and I'll make one for you." Hong Tao began to talk about his plans.
"You can, I don't know how your dad taught you, and you make a radio, and that thing doesn't eat or drink, and it costs batteries. It's done, you hurry home, don't run so far, my uncle-in-law is still at work, I'll go first!" The aunt was obviously not very interested in the radio or anything, and climbed into the body of the tricycle with the black thing, patted the driver's building, and the car ran away with a sudden sound and a puff of black smoke.
"Brother Xiaotao, I want to take a car too!" Jin Yue watched the car run away, very envious.
"In the future, my brother will take you to the sleeping car, this thing is boring, and in a few years, you won't even let it in the 3rd ring!" Hong Tao can only draw a big pie for Jin Yue's request, where can he find a car in this era, he doesn't even have a taxi, even if he has money, he can't buy it, and no one dares to sell it to a private car.
With the success of this leakage, Hong Tao was also addicted, and he ran to the nearby entrusted store when he had nothing to do, and Dongsi, Dongdan, Andingmen, and Dongzhimen all let him run all over, and he really found a few good things. For example, 2 old Swiss watches, a hardwood screen, a Parker gold pen from the 4O's, and an original German Leica camera from the 2O's.
One of the things that made Hong Tao the happiest was the Leica 1A camera that left the factory in 1923, which was actually on the shelves of the commission store all along, but Hong Tao did not show up at first, because it also had a leather case outside, and Hong Tao only knew that it was a camera, but he did not know what brand or model it was. Later, when Hong Tao went to visit the consignment store again, it was almost the New Year, and the salesperson was cleaning the shelves, so he took down all the cameras and put them on the counter, and then Hong Tao saw that the bottom of the leather case was printed with 1einetbsp; At this time, Hong Tao didn't care too much, just out of respect for this famous camera brand, he opened the box and prepared to look at it at will, the old Leica of the 6 and 7o years was not very valuable in the future, because the production was relatively high, and it was rare in China, but there were many European and American countries. But when he opened the thick brown leather case, he saw a strange camera that he had never seen before.
The lens focal circle and shutter of this camera, including the film wrench, are the same as the combination lock on the safe, and there is an ancient taste at first glance, and the feel is too pressing, and the domestic seagull and friendship camera at this time are not the same feeling at all, which makes Hong Tao's curiosity flood again. So he looked through it again, and found a bilingual instruction manual in English and German at the bottom of the crusty shell.
Hong Tao's English is okay, thanks to his later tenants, a foreign teacher and a couple, who were introduced by his father's colleagues and rented three rooms in his yard. The foreigner couple is also a broken mouth, and they like to raise the bar with Hong Tao on various issues at home and abroad, so in order to convince them more, Hong Tao deliberately improved his English, originally planned to use razing to defeat him, and the side effect was that his English level also rose.
After reading the manual, Hong Tao immediately paid for the camera, because he saw the production date, 1923! Even if the camera was broken, it would be a fine product in the future, let alone take it out and sell it, even if it was a Leica manufacturer, it would be recycled at a high price.
In fact, this is not a leak, at this time a brand new Seagull 2O5/135 camera only sold for 6O yuan, and the price of this old Leica is also 6O, according to the concept of people at the time, it is not cheap at all, and it is even a little expensive. However, this is only the price assessed according to the item itself, and most people do not have the concept of collection and appreciation at this time, and do not understand what added value is.
In this era, there is a very comfortable place to buy things, that is, worry-free, no matter what the product is, it is high-fidelity, and what is written on the product is what it is. You don't have to think about whether this thing is a product, whether it is a copy, whether it is a copycat, it is 100% real, it is difficult to buy a fake. You can ask the salesperson if there is a processed product, but don't ask if it's real or not, or they will give you a big eyeball and look at you like a fool.
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