Chapter 227 Precious Wood Worth Billions

According to Liu Dong's identification, 56 of them are Hai-Nanhuanghua pears, and of course, the ones that can be collected by Uncle Long are naturally famous products in Haihuang.

From the cut sections, it can be seen that the diameter of these sea-yellow heartwood is more than 20 centimeters, and the most precious one is about 45 centimeters in diameter. And almost every sea-yellow heartwood has a 'ghost-face pattern' on it.

"The largest sea yellow was bought from the local countryside for 10,000 yuan when I went to Hainan eight years ago. As a result, after I spent the night at someone's house, I demolished their house! Although it was a bit of a joke, Liu Dong felt the joy in Uncle Long.

Of course, in 92 years, '10,000 yuan households' represents the era of wealth, and the price of 10,000 yuan is not low. However, compared to this precious sea yellow, 10,000 yuan is really worth it. Now, any collector is willing to pay tens of millions, or even tens of millions, to buy this piece of Hai-Nanhuanghuali with a heartwood of 45mm.

In addition to the 56 sea yellows, the remaining 64 are all more yellow, of course, compared to the precious sea yellow, the value of these more yellow is slightly inferior, but they are also big materials, the heartwood is more than 30 centimeters on average, and the thickest one is about 60 centimeters. Like the sea yellow, these yellowing heartwood also have some beautiful ghost-face wood grains.

After looking at the yellow rosewood, and then go down, it is the wenge wood, which is known as the four famous trees of ancient China with the yellow rosewood, red sandalwood, and iron knife wood.

Wenge wood has white and black seals, some colors are yellow and purple, and the grain of diagonal sawn wood is in the shape of fine flowers. Resembles chicken wings. Especially the longitudinal section. The wood grain is slender and floating. The changes are endless, and the natural formation of landscapes and human patterns is formed.

Wenge wood has less production than pear, red sandalwood and other woods, and the wood texture is unique, so it is cherished by the world for its small number of surviving and beautiful and gorgeous charm.

At present, wenge on the market is divided into Burmese-dian wenge and African wenge.

Burmese-Dianian wenge wood, produced in Burma-Dianian and Thailand-China, is also called 'safflower cliff bean wood', the heartwood is black-brown or chestnut-brown, often with black stripes, the tube hole is visible to the naked eye, and the density is large. sinking in water; The material is smooth and delicate. The center of the tree has a sandstone core, that is, something resembling sand and gravel, and radial lines extend outward from the center of the tree.

The sand and stone core is extremely hard, and sometimes it will crumble and saw.

The proportion of sand cores in the whole tree varies from 20% to 50-60%. The maturity period of Burmese-Dianian wenge wood is about 150-200 years, when most of them can reach 30-40 cm in diameter, and the coarse ones can reach 60-70 cm, but it is rare. In order to sell it at a good price in the market, it is also called "old wenge".

Non-continent wenge. The heartwood is dark brown with a slight yellowish tinge. often with black stripes; The tube bore is the thickest of the three wenges; The texture is the coarseest; It is also the lightest dense and does not sink in water; The material is brittle and slightly less hard. There is no sand and gravel heart in the heart of the tree. The logs are larger and straighter. In the market, it is also called "black wenge", or pseudo-called "eastern-South Asian wenge". The value is much worse than the value of Burmese-Dianian wenge.

Naturally, there will be no non-continental wenge collected by Uncle Long, basically Burmese-Dianian wenge, but the number is not as much as Huanghuali, only 68. But they are all old wenge trees with a diameter of 70 cm or more. The thickest one is nearly a meter in diameter. To grow like this, I'm afraid it will take at least three or four hundred years.

"Wenge wood is not like Huanghuali and Rosewood can gamble on wood, and can only be bought with money, so it is a little less!" Uncle Long said with some regret.

"Uncle Long, you've got a lot! I don't know how many people are rushing to get these wenge woods! Liu Dong said with envy in his tone.

"Huh!" After listening to Liu Dong's words, the old man laughed proudly.

"Okay, keep looking down, I've spent nearly twenty years collecting a lot of good wood!"

Hearing the old man's words, Liu Dong was naturally moved.

However, when he walked in front of the next group of woods, it was much more than Liu Dong expected.

"These two ironwood are the least planted trees in my collection!" Uncle Long looked at the two pieces of wood that were placed vertically, twenty meters long and about 150mm in diameter, and said with a hint of regret on his face.

However, for this situation, Liu Dong also figured out the reason at the moment.

Compared with the expensive red sandalwood, huanghuali, wenge, mahogany and other precious wood, although Tieli wood is also one of the hardest wood, but its value has not been high, although it was also used to make furniture in the Ming Dynasty - early Qing Dynasty, but it gradually disappeared in the later period.

In modern times, although the application range of iron wood is very wide, its value has not been high. If it weren't for the fact that these two pieces of iron pear wood were too big, and he planned to enrich his collection, I am afraid that Uncle Long would not have put these two pieces of iron pear wood into his own storage.

"Uncle Long, is it really Jin Sinan?" Liu Dong looked at the five pieces of wood in front of him, and his tone was full of disbelief.

If there is any wood that is rarer than small-leaved red sandalwood, it is only the legendary golden silk nanmu. Because it was already extinct in the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong even demolished the Ming Tomb in order to get this golden silk nanmu. This shows the rarity of golden silk nanmu.

Of course, although there are a lot of nanmu in nature, but only Zinan is called Jinsi Nan, and according to the standards of the Qing court's office, not all Nanmu with gold silk can be called Jinsi Nan, it must be the kind of gold wire coverage rate of more than 80% on the whole piece of wood, and there must be auspicious appearance, such as tiger skin pattern, wind pattern, mountain peak, sea of clouds, wave shape, etc.

According to Mr. Nanfeng's classification and naming of the golden silk Nanmu wood grain, it is roughly divided into four levels: ordinary grade, medium grade, boutique grade, best grade and treasure.

Ordinary level patterns are: gold filigree, cloth check and mountain peak

Medium-level textures include: ordinary water ripples, new black tiger skin patterns, golden peak patterns and peak patterns that form a picture.

The high-quality textures are: old black tiger skin, golden tiger skin pattern, gold line pattern, gold ingot pattern, cloud pattern, water drop pattern, blister pattern, etc.

The best textures are: the best water waves and the best wave patterns, phoenix tail patterns, dense water droplets, golden chrysanthemum patterns, sesame dot gall wood, Ding Ding Nan cloud patterns, etc.

The textures of the treasures are: gentian pattern, dragon scale pattern, gold and jade full house pattern, rose pattern, grape pattern gall wood and the texture of the beautiful scenery, birds and beast patterns.

Moreover, the wood of Jinsi Nan is hard and corrosion-resistant, and there is a saying that "water can not be soaked, and ants can not burrow" since ancient times. The growth of golden silk nanmu is slow, and its growth law makes the big pot late (it takes 60-90 years to grow vigorously in the golden stage), and it takes hundreds of years to become a pillar material.

After the large-scale felling of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is very rare to be able to call the golden silk nanmu that can be called a pillar timber now.

I really didn't expect that Uncle Long would be able to see five of them here.

Looking at the golden silk nanmu that was flashing under the light at the moment, and then smelled with a camphor fragrance, Liu Dong's excitement in his heart can be imagined.

Looking at these five nanmu, the expression on Uncle Long's face was also excited and proud, with a strong sense of satisfaction.

"Hehe, the diameter of these five golden silk nanmu is between 20~25mm, the gold wire coverage rate is between 50~80%, and the best piece is 76% gold wire coverage, and then has a rare gentian pattern, 2.5 meters long, 23mm in diameter." For these precious woods that he has collected all his life, the details of them are all clearly remembered in his mind.

"Uncle Long, these five pieces of wood are too precious!"

"Yes! It took me and my father nearly a century to find these five roots after two generations and I traveled through most of China! Naturally, it is extremely precious! Speaking of this, Uncle Long's face showed a hint of reminiscence.

Around these five pieces of golden silk nanmu, Liu Dong wandered for half an hour before continuing to see the next group.

However, he was familiar with the next set of wood, because he had just used it before, and that was the ebony known as the Oriental Sacred Wood, also known as the gloomy wood.

There are a total of eight gloomy trees collected here by Uncle Long, the largest of which is more than 13 meters long and 120 centimeters in diameter. And judging from the grain characteristics of the wood, it should be the top grade iron power wood in the ebony wood.

The remaining seven ebony trees are all between 30~90 cm in diameter, with different lengths, but they are all above two meters and below six meters.

"Of these eight ebony, two are iron wood gloomy wood, one yellow willow wood gloomy wood, two sandalwood gloomy wood, one yellow cork gloomy wood, and two golden silk nan wood gloomy wood. However, one of these two golden silk nanmu is four meters long and 35 centimeters wide, and one is 3.5 meters long and 56 centimeters wide, which is not too big, and it has always been a regret in my heart! Saying this, Uncle Long couldn't help but shake his head.

"Uncle Long, isn't this big enough?" Liu Dong couldn't help but say. You must know that the gloomy wood of golden silk nanmu is known as the best grade among the gloomy woods, and it is known as a thousand years of incorruptibility. If you let others know that Uncle Long has such a big two golden silk nanmu gloomy wood, then you can't be envious to death.

Looking at the look on Liu Dong's face, Uncle Long smiled and said, "Xiaodong, the largest golden silk nanmu gloomy wood I have ever seen is 12 meters long and one meter wide!" ”

After finishing speaking, Uncle Long continued to walk forward, leaving Liu Dong, who had a long mouth and a look of disbelief on his face.

After a long time, he came back to his senses, shook his head secretly, and laughed at himself: "It seems that I am still too lonely and unheard!" ”

Further down is in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Huanghuali and small-leaved red sandalwood and become the three major tribute-wood branches of the palace and the court, and it is also called the old mahogany in the north of the Yangtze River.

Mahogany, as the name suggests, is a long-term mahogany, called sour branches in the "National Standard", mainly produced in Laos, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. Before the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Guangzhou-West, Yunnan-South and other provinces also existed, but after the Republic of China, they were completely extinct.

Its wood is hard, delicate, can sink in water, generally needs to grow for more than 500 years before it can be used, it is different from other woods The most obvious thing is that its wood grain is often sandwiched with dark brown or black stripes in the deep red, giving people an antique feeling. (To be continued......)