26. Mistyped millennium
was so sarcastic by him, the group outside showed a look of anger, and someone gritted his teeth and said: "Don't stop me, Made, I'm going to beat this son of a bitch!"
Hans paid no heed to their threat, and in a fit of rage ran out to pick up a new book, carefully placed the stamp inside, and exclaimed, "I'm telling the truth, do you know what we've picked up?"
Li Du didn't know where this stamp was worth, so he asked, "What kind of stamp is this?"
Hans avoided Meow's claws and excitedly said, "This is a millennium stamp issued in 2000, and we got a sports version!"
A man outside sneered: "Ha, I thought you got some treasure, the millennium commemorative stamps, I don't know how many sets were issued at that time...... Oh Shet!"
Speaking of the second half of the sentence, he seemed to think of something, and his face suddenly froze. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Hans laughed and said, "Haha, you've got that right? You've thought of man, you're a guy with a brain." Come, Lee, look at this stamp, what's written on it?"
He took out a postage stamp, which showed Ali waving his fist, and Li Du looked at the words on it and said, "Joe Montana, the flying quarterback......"
"Look at this one again. Hans pulled out another one, and it showed a man running with a rugby in his arms.
"Michael Jordan, God in the number 23 jersey, hey, it doesn't seem right. ”
"What about this one?" the picture shows Jordan dunking.
"Muhammad Ali, the eternal boxing king......" Li Du was surprised when he read it, "The name and profile on it don't seem to correspond to the picture." ”
Hans exclaimed, "That's right, man, this is the wrong Millennium Sports stamp! This is the famous wrong Millennium Sports stamp!"
A group of people outside looked ugly, and someone shouted, "Impossible, you can't have such good luck!"
Hans laughed wildly: "We are the most devout believers in God, God bless the good guys!
Someone comforted himself: "These two guys are acting, we can't see the stamps anyway." ”
Hans took a photo with his mobile phone and enlarged it to show them, and when he saw the photo of the stamp on the screen, these people immediately looked bitter.
Li Du picked up Ah Meow and said, "Then Ah Meow made a meritorious service today?"
Hans said excitedly: "It has done a great job, if Michael is the god in the No. 23 jersey on the basketball court, then it is the god in the cat's skin in the warehouse auction!"
As he spoke, he grabbed Meow and kissed it twice on the head, Meow fought back, and waved his front legs with a claw: presumptuous shoveling!
Li Du asked, "Are these stamps worth anything?"
"Valueless!"
This time, it was easy to pack up the few things, two bookshelves and a pile of books were carried into the car, and then the warehouse was cleaned.
As they were about to leave, more people came to hear the news and asked, "Is this true? A cat found the wrong copy of a millennial sports star stamp from a bookcase in a one-dollar warehouse?"
Hans saw the big black man who had photographed Warehouse 75, and he raised his middle finger and said, "We bought six wrong stamps for one dollar, and what shit did you shoot for three thousand dollars?"
The big black man grabbed a cup from the warehouse and smashed it at them, scolding, "I wish you all the best luck in a car accident on the way back!"
On the way back, Li Du asked, "How much are these six stamps worth?"
Hans said with great interest: "About two years ago, there was a Christie's auction in Los Angeles, and there was a wrong set of millennial sports star stamps, which seemed to fetch 200,000 yuan!"
"Two hundred thousand,!" Li Du couldn't help but burst into foul language, this is really a huge amount of money.
Hans said: "Don't get excited, it's a set, this set of twenty-five stamps, and we have six of them, and they won't sell for auction, but they won't be bad." ”
In the world of collecting, stamp collecting is by no means niche, and there are many people in the United States who like to collect valuable stamps.
Among them, the wrong stamp is the highest value of the grade, although the wrong stamp is a defective product caused by operational errors, but because the collection industry advocates "rare things are expensive", but its value rises, and is regarded as a beloved treasure by stamp collectors all over the world.
Li Du checked it on the Internet with his mobile phone, and this set of stamps was indeed issued a lot at that time, and it was issued all over the United States, and the final circulation exceeded 100,000 sets.
However, less than 100 sets of wrong stamps were issued, and after these stamps were issued to the post office, someone found a typographic error on the same day, and the major post offices immediately recycled the stamps as invalid.
Driving back to Flagpole City, Hans made a beeline for the central city, home to the city's upper-class people, either villas or high-end apartments, and even the ginkgo trees on the side of the road reveal a drunken feeling.
Hans contacted an interested buyer on the road, a man named Russell Duch.
The usefulness of the American Warehouse Treasure Hunting Association can be seen here, which contains a database detailing information about warehouse companies and buyers in various places, and ratings them according to credit, character, assets, etc.
They were returning for the same day, and by the time they got back to Flagpole City, it was already completely dark, and it happened that Russell Doocchi was also off work and had time to receive them.
The two parties contacted to meet at a restaurant for dinner. The restaurant is Hans's choice, the Golden Aquitaine Restaurant, and one of the few high-end restaurants in Flagpole City.
Russell Dooch was an elegant middle-aged white man with rimless glasses, blond hair, green eyes, and a rather burly build, who spoke in a loud voice: "Huh, Mr. Hans?
"It's us, hello Russell, please sit down, no need to stand up. Hans was able to bring the two sides closer together.
Dudge smiled and said, "You said on the phone that there are a few interesting stamps you want me to see?"
Hans took out his notebook and showed the stamps to Duch.
Duge pulled out a magnifying glass and a small machine that emitted infrared and ultraviolet light from his briefcase, and looked at the six stamps.
During the viewing, his expression did not change, and after reading it, he smiled: "Good thing, the original wrong version of the Millennium Sports Star stamps, a total of six stamps, all genuine." ”
Hans smiled: "Of course it's the real thing, man, we're from the Treasure Hunter Association, and this is my ID, you know, we do business with integrity." ”
Once again, the role of the association was revealed, and after seeing the VIP membership card that looked like a driver's license, Duqi put away his tools and said, "Of course, I have full trust in your association. ”
"Can you tell us about these stamp collections? We're not familiar with the industry and might be missing out on some good stuff. Hans said.
"Of course, I'd love to, but it's time to eat, why don't we order something and talk while eating?"
"That couldn't be better. Li Du's stomach was going to be hungry.