Chapter 339 [On the Crazy Little Piece of Paper]
In the West, philately is a very large collection category, a small piece of paper stamp is often worth tens of millions of dollars, which is not an exaggeration at all, the major auction company stamps are a large type of auction. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Every year, priceless stamps are bought at auction by some mysterious buyers, and the stamps are worth millions of dollars, and it is not surprising that some out-of-print stamps, or wrong stamps, are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Last time, I said that the owner of this house has been a military profession for several generations, and it is a military family, coupled with the history of American expansion in the past 200 years, the military has dominated the position, and even some overseas colonies, including the Eight-Nation Alliance, have American troops in Beijing.
Not to mention World War I, World War II was a war won by the United States, it can be said that the United States fought all over the world invincible, this is not an exaggeration, of course, the only defeat is lost to our China on the Korean battlefield, in the current society, the United States is also the world's number one military power, the United States military bases are all over the world, and the professional soldiers who also fought for the United States are stationed in various bases.
Twenty years ago, if these soldiers wanted to contact their relatives in the United States, they could only make phone calls and write letters, unlike today's e-mail. Therefore, it is understandable that all the stamps from all over the world are gathered in the United States, and the owner of the house began to appear in 1840 with professional soldiers, and every generation of family members has appeared with professional soldiers, so it can be said that every family of the owner of the house led by the United States will participate.
Almost 200 years of family history, all the letters have been preserved, these stamps can be called an astronomical amount, Yang Yong just a cursory check has more than 700 stamps more than 50 years old, each of these stamps is worth more than 100,000 US dollars, and these prices are still not capped, how scary it is.
Yang Yong said that the discovery of gold mines is indeed right, these small pieces of paper are paper gold reserve coupons, these small stamps can be exchanged for tons of gold, and the market position is still in short supply, Yang Yong made a fortune, a real fortune.
After discovering these secrets, Yang Yong's excitement is not something that words can express, and he actually taught Smith a lesson to calm his mood, but his heart beat fast, and he has been accompanying Yang Yong so that Yang Yong has no choice, and he concentrates on observing where these stamps come from? What age was it mailed to the contiguous United States.
There was no way, Yang Yong could only put these stamps back into the canvas bag, and then tied his mouth and sneaked back to the room above the RV with Smith as a thief, and then Yang Yong came to the first floor of the RV and said a few words to Charlie, who was preparing for the barbecue party. "Charlie, I'm going to video with my family in New York, and I won't be called until four hours later when the barbecue dinner is going on, don't you know? Don't bother me before the barbecue begins. ”
Yang Yong is the boss, who dares to let Yang Yong work? Although the barbecue dinner was complicated, Charlie didn't dare to work on Yang Yong's master. Since the boss decided to have a video connection with his family in Maine, they themselves should not find boring children to disturb Yang Yong's happy time, so Charlie patted his chest and said to Yang Yong reassuringly.
"Don't worry, boss, I won't bother you before the barbecue party starts, so don't worry about chatting with your family! I take care of everything for the barbecue party, so don't worry. ”
Yang Yong was very happy to hear Charlie say this, patted Charlie on the shoulder twice, then laughed, took Smith back to the second floor of the RV, locked the door, pulled down all the curtains and lit the lamp, and then mysteriously lay on the cashmere carpet with Smith, brushing the dust on the yellowed century-old letters with a newly opened toothbrush, and sorting out these priceless envelopes.
Yang Yong is a native of the United States of the second generation of immigrants, the education received since childhood is the American education, for Yang Yong, to understand the content of the American envelope hundreds of years ago is very simple, Yang Yong put these stamps together according to the place of origin, the largest number of which is some Pacific island countries produced by the number of special stamps is the largest.
After all, these island countries are resource-poor and economically backward regions, and one of the main economic sources is to issue some beautiful and collectible stamps to subsidize their own countries' finances, including Tonga and the Kingdom of Hawaii.
That's right, it is the Kingdom of Hawaii, the Kingdom of Hawaii was annexed by the United States in 1898, that is to say, before 1898, the Kingdom of Hawaii was an independent country, recognized by the world hegemon Britain, the United States and France, and in 1898, such as the coup d'état launched by the United States overthrew the rule of the queen of the Kingdom of Hawaii at that time, and was forcibly annexed by the United States to become a state of the United States, which is also one of the dark histories of the United States.
Outside these South Pacific island countries, the largest amount is the stamps of some European countries, the invention time of stamps can not be verified, but the modern society uses stamps uniformly when the letter has been mailed, only some European countries took the lead in how to use stamps. China's first modern stamp was printed with the help of foreigners in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, commonly known as the Dragon Stamp.
And these dragon tickets were found by Yang Yong in this pile of more than 100 years of letters, but the number is really limited, there are only ten dragon tickets issued by the Qing Dynasty, don't look at the actual number is very small, but each one will be worth more than 500,000 US dollars, after all, with the rapid development of the Chinese economy in recent years, the value of the collection of Huaxia is particularly fast, so that the outside world knows that Yang Yong has ten dragon tickets at the end of the Qing Dynasty in his hand, hehehehe, it will be lively.
Modern stamps were pioneered by Europe and have a history of hundreds of years, and some small European countries and South Pacific island countries have adopted the same strategy, and the issuance of stamps in economic development is one of the pillars of finance.
Each of the stamps issued by these small European countries is particularly exquisite, each one can be called a classic, and the set of collections is priceless, such as the small countries of Europe, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, well, and the Vatican City of the Papal States, which are all large stamp issuing countries.
It's funny to say, these small European countries are not large, but the stamps issued are the most beautiful in the world, and they are the most popular category of collections, but Yang Yong is disappointed that only more than 10 stamps issued in Europe with a history of more than 200 years have been found.
And there are two are damaged, these found stamps are real mailed envelopes, that is, used stamps, but also stamped stamps, although these real mailed envelopes are slightly lower than those stamps that are collected separately into the board, but the real mailing envelopes are more collectible, there are even more artificial stories in it, it is still very popular, and most of the stamps worth more than one million at auctions over the years are real mailing envelopes, which are used by people who have stamped them, which is understandable.
After more than two hours of intense sorting, a total of more than 400 stamps with a history of more than 50 years were sorted out, of which more than a dozen stamps are the most classic, each stamp can be exchanged for tens of millions of dollars of auction money, these ten stamps are the basis for Yang Yong's name to discover the gold mine, because each of these ten stamps is priceless. (To be continued.) )