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Second Collection Story】

Changshu folk collection has a long history and is known as "half of the southeast collection", so the collection culture is also an important part of the profound heritage of Changshu National Historical and Cultural City. To read the latest chapters, please lock in the Aishang Novel Network biquge.info general collection articles are mainly preachy, and some are even boring and empty. The following three collection stories are all what I have seen and heard this year, and it is interesting to write them casually. It can also see the mood of the collector, the complexity of the collecting circle, and the mystery of the collection knowledge.

Step on the ground and step into the antique shop

"Go to the city to step on the ground", this sentence was just heard by a few Zhao people (note) in the cultural relics store, their profession is to step on the ground.

The traditional antique trading chain is: people (the vast majority of them are in the countryside) - people who step on the land - those who open antique shops (or set up stalls) - collectors. The first excavators of antiques were the Floor Traders, who went from house to house in the countryside in search of ancient objects that were covered in dust and grease. It's hard work to do this, and it's common to eat behind closed doors and get chased by dogs, but it's also full of temptations, the temptation to find treasure and huge profits. After the person who stepped on the land received the goods, he sold them to the antique shop at a higher price, and after changing hands several times, they could finally flow into the collector's home. Perhaps after this process, the final transaction price will exceed the initial purchase price by several times, dozens of times, or even hundreds of times, but collectors and land walkers will get satisfaction and joy from it.

However, antique resources are non-renewable and will only be depleted day by day. The living standards of the common people have improved, and the only remaining antiques in the family will not be sold lightly. As the saying goes, "prosperous collections", as the team of collectors continues to grow, the demand for antiques has also increased exponentially. The two-way force has caused fewer and fewer genuine and beautiful products to be seen in the antique market, and even if the price rises all the way, it cannot stop this trend. Therefore, in order to make a living, the attention of the people who stepped on the ground also shifted, and they began to buy goods from street stalls, antique shops, and even cultural relics shops. In the past, the customers of the state-run antiquities shops were collectors, bosses and foreigners, and locals rarely frequented them.

Yesterday at noon, I met them in the Weng Pavilion and came out of the store, and some of them were carrying vest bags, judging from the shape of the newspaper bag, it should be a large vase or two stacked porridge pots. Then, they moved to the field again, and from time to time they squatted down to look at the jade and porcelain of the Henan people. I said to Boss Zhang: "The world has changed, and my friends have stepped on the stalls!" ”

At noon today, I was in the antiquities store, and as soon as I entered the door, I saw that they were also studying carefully, from the display cabinet on the side to the counter, from the porcelain to the jade. After the restructuring of the cultural relics store, there have been several exhibitions, the inventory has been sold almost, and basically only in and out, so most of the sales on display are slightly faulty leftovers, it is rare to have a few complete, but the price on the label has long been opened.

Standing on the side and watching one of them select the teapot, he has to move out to check it out, listening to his comments one by one, I actually learned two tricks to identify the colored porcelain of the Republic of China. It's really helpless, although the price on the label is not high, and you can discount it if you really want it, but all the pots are more or less a little faulty or defective. Seeing him shake his head and sigh, I interjected on the side and said, "It's not your turn to be beautiful and complete, and there are people who bite at high prices." "I'm one of them, I can't help it, now I can only buy expensive if I want to get a satisfactory collection, but with the passage of time and the rise in price, money will not be lost, and it doesn't matter if I have what I like in my hands for a few more years.

After reading the porcelain, they lay on the counter and studied the jade and jadeite, and at the same time took out the harvest of stepping on the ground in the city today. There was a guy who bought a piece of jade for dozens of yuan at a stall, saying that he would pay two hundred when he went back, and even if he was paid back, he could earn it by winding up and paying for the meal. The other bought an ordinary ivory name badge, which was not expensive and was not old, and he said that he would go back and polish the words and sell them to the boss to re-engrave them. At the end, someone took a fancy to a top chest the size of a silver dollar, with a price tag of five hundred and six, and after a seven-fold discount, it was calculated at four hundred. After the silver goods were gone, he hurriedly peeled off the fire paint mark on the back of his chest, except for the two threading holes, there was nothing else. Then, among his companions, he said, "This piece of jade is so good!" "The top chest has been on the counter for several years, the jade is not too white, and the top chest is inconvenient to wear, so it has not been sold.

These people are all trampling on the ground, and they buy things to sell them, so they don't have to think about their own preferences like collectors. Even if they encounter new, fake, or broken goods, as long as they judge that they can have a home and be profitable, they will not hesitate to eat it. With their eyesight, they can accurately estimate the margin of peeling and peeling for each thing. I've always thought that the people who make money are the shrewd people, and they are.

Note: Although there are many people who step on the ground in Changshu, because Zhao people enter this line the most, have the best eyesight, and have the most refined threshold, Zhao people often become synonymous with people who step on the ground in Changshu townships.

A pair of bowls, one large and one small

If you don't want to eat lunch for the time being, go to Weng Pavilion for a spin first. It was rare that the front of the champion square was empty, so I parked the car and entered the antique market from the south corner gate. I walked around the grounds, and although it wasn't a weekend, it was still full of stalls, and there were even several flower beds under the east wall. After looking at it, there is no local or Suzhou Wuxi people; After listening to it, it was all Henan accent. walked straight to the aisle in the northwest corner, the roller shutter door of Yiwenxuan was closed, and the boss had something at home in the past two days.

Passing by Aunt Bu's jade shop, she waved to me again and again and told me to come over, stepped on the stone steps, she pointed to the next door and said, "Xiao Si just received something good." Turning around the door, I saw that Xiao Si was wrapping something in newspaper, and Mrs. Xie was also beside him. Looking at Xiao Sixi's appearance, I knew that he had drunk honey today, and asked him to open the newspaper bag for me to watch, it turned out to be a pair of Tang Yisheng's small bowls. Take a closer look at it, the size of this bowl is one size smaller than the average rice bowl, but the painting is exquisite, the porcelain is snow-white, and the whole product is in the same condition, just like my powder box, which is fine road porcelain.

Although I never collect bowls, I still feel a little in love with these little things. Urging Xiao Si to ask what price he was willing to give, he replied shyly "One thousand five", and I stuck out my tongue - spicy hands! At this time, Mrs. Lao Xie came in again (when I looked at the bowl, she had already gone back to the store once), and said to Xiao Si, "Let's see Lao Xie", Xiao Si wrapped the bowl and handed it to her, and then the two of them walked into Lao Xie's antique shop next to him, and I also followed behind to watch the excitement.

Lao Xie picked up the small bowl and praised it repeatedly, while his hands kept groping on the surface of the bowl, and he also raised it to see if there were dark lines in the light. After the basic inspection, Lao Xie signaled to his wife to "give it to him", and Mrs. Xie counted out 1,000 yuan one by one and placed it on the counter glass. Lao Xie asked Boss Mei, who was standing on the side, to help check if there was anything wrong with it, and joked with Xiao Si: "Hurry up and put it away, ten old men!" ”

Boss Mei said: "The things are good, but with a thousand yuan, it is difficult to peel off some skin." Lao Xie said: "There are not many good things like this in pairs now, let's get our hands on it first." I said, "I don't care if it's a pair or not, as long as it's exquisite, it's fun to have a single one." Lao Xie said: "This kind of small bowl was used by rich people to eat Lianxin dates in the past, and they were all in pairs, and it was not easy to keep them so intact." "I see, and I have gained a little more knowledge. Seeing that they had already negotiated a deal, I didn't want to intervene, quit and went back to Aunt Bu's shop, and asked: "How much did Xiao Si get in", and replied: "200, an old man bumped in and took out these two bowls." "The antique business is really easy to do, don't look at the teapot all day long, but luck can't push it off.

At this moment, I saw Xiao Si holding the newspaper bag just now, and came back step by step, and hurriedly walked over to ask what was going on, saying that "the size of the two bowls is a little wrong." I opened the paper bag, took a small bowl in each hand, and buckled the mouth of the bowl, and sure enough, it was big and small. A comparison also found that the porcelain color of the two bowls is also a little different, and the thickness of the porcelain tire is also slightly different. In fact, this situation is normal, it used to be manual work, because of mass production, it is inevitable that there will be small differences in the same kind of utensils, but for the discerning collector, the pursuit of perfection must be seamless. The profit from changing hands is gone, but it is not necessarily gone, and there may be buyers soon, after all, good things are really rare to see now, and the team of collectors is growing. As long as the east and west are on the right road, there are many people who are willing to pay high money.

An old man walked by outside the store, and Xiao Si hurriedly stopped and said to him, "Go back and look for it", and the old man replied: "In addition to these two bowls, there are also a few teapots that are less broken." "It turned out that the old man found an urn at home, and when he opened it, he saw that it was full of broken porcelain, and even he did not know when these things were sealed. It is estimated that his ancestors are also good people, and they stored a batch of porcelain for later use, and they may forget the things in the urn when the war is in chaos, and the descendants will not know about it as soon as the old man dies, and the result will be broken when he moves around. If this urn porcelain is well preserved, it should be possible to imagine its full value from those two small bowls. Maybe in a few days, there will be a story circulating in the antique market that so-and-so picked up a big ingot, received a batch of good porcelain, and no one knows how many things there are.

This is the charm of antiques, which can make people's hearts beat faster than just appreciating them.

The first time I tried to be happy

On the afternoon of the 24th, the Changshu Collection Association held the second member collection exchange auction, I arrived at the museum early, paid a deposit of 500 yuan, and received a No. 44 plate.

At the beginning of September, I received a notice from the association that it was going to hold an exchange meeting for members to actively participate, and I calculated that I had nothing to sell. All I could get my hands on was porcelain, and the cheap ones couldn't be put on the table, and the expensive ones were reluctant, so I decided to only participate in buying and not selling. Two days before the auction, I couldn't wait to go to the museum at noon on Friday, first walked around, and found that among the 162 lots, I only liked two pastel pen washes, No. 90 Qing Guangxu pastel flower and bird pattern pen wash starting price of 4000 yuan, No. 154 Qing Tongzhi pastel flower butterfly pattern pen wash starting price of 3000 yuan, No. 90 pen wash of the caliber is 19 cm, much larger than 154 12 cm, the appearance is also more beautiful than 154, so I feel that the transaction price of No. 90 is more than 5000 yuan, And the price of No. 154 has basically been opened in place. The only thing that makes me a little hesitant is that it is not my collecting principle to be incomplete, but No. 90 is a little hairy.

Someone pointed out that the little crab in No. 67 in the jade was good, good work, and to the generation, so I asked Xiao Zhang to open the cabinet and take a look. There is a gap on the crab belly from the chela downward, which is covered by numbered paper, and it is difficult to see how long it is. But the carving of this white jade crab is really beautiful, especially the unevenness on the back of the crab is very realistic. The reserve price is 800 yuan, which is not too expensive, and I have added another thing that I am interested in.

I took more than 200 photos in one go, and the batteries of the digital camera were all heating up. After getting off work, I went home and worked for four and a half hours, cutting and uploading posts, and finally moved all the pre-exhibits to Shajiabang and Artron Forum. This is a cultural event in Changshu, and it is also appropriate to help promote it.

On Saturday morning, I came out of the Weng Pavilion and went to the pre-exhibition hall to study it carefully. There are more people visiting this day, and the insiders and laymen are all together to comment on the head and the country, and even more, they forget that there is the owner of the lot on the side, so the crowd is full of voices, which is really insulting. Collecting is an elegant thing, but there are also rules for a line, even if there are fakes on the market now, but you can only whisper to your friends to exchange opinions, because it may also be that your eyesight is not enough to misjudge the old and new, and the voice is loud It is easy to have face-to-face conflicts with others, no matter who is cut off from the financial road is uncomfortable.

The 24th was Sunday, and I went out after lunch, and I went to the bank first, and I must have enough ammunition to go to the auction. In fact, there are not many, I estimate that I can only get one at most for two pen washes, and my psychological price of that jade crab is 1,005 caps. There were already a lot of people waiting in the backyard of the museum, and after a while, the lecture hall was almost full, about two or three hundred people, and I heard that even the surrounding cities and counties had many buyers, and it seemed that the competition must be fierce today. At one o'clock, Mr. Xu Jinfan, Honorary President of the Collection Association, made a concise and enthusiastic opening speech, and Secretary-General Zhou Gongtai announced the rules of the exchange meeting. At one o'clock, Deputy Secretary-General Zhang Mangong took the stage, and the exchange auction officially began.

My goal is in the second half, so I'll see the excitement for a while. Lot No. 10 Qing Guangxu Kaiguang character sea bowl pushed the auction to the first **, the reserve price of 3,500 yuan, each time the bid was increased by 50 yuan, and when the bid exceeded 4,000 yuan, the venue resounded with warm applause. The atmosphere at the auction is often exciting, and in the applause of the audience, the bidders raised their cards one after another, and in the end, this blue and white thin-tire bowl with a diameter of 20 centimeters was sold for 5,000 yuan.

Since not every lot has a bid, the auction is relatively fast, and I estimate that it will end before four o'clock.

At two o'clock, it was the turn of the little jade crab, and when the full bow was finished introducing the lot, I held up the number plate and asked for 800 yuan. As expected, there are a lot of people who fancy this jade crab, everyone you chase me to catch up with the price all the way to 1600, I gritted my teeth and raised the card, 1650, which has exceeded my psychological price. People fight for a breath, Buddha is a pillar of incense, and there can only be more on this occasion and in this atmosphere. Everyone else seemed to be melancholy, and when the full bow quoted 1650 for the second time, something unexpected happened, and a parrot cry sounded in the back row of me, 2000! Everyone turned their heads to salute the photographer, and there was warm applause in the room. I don't know whether it was joy or pride, I heard her whisper again: "50 yuan at a time, annoying and annoying." When I encountered a large amount of money, I could only give up, after all, the crab was a little injured and was worth less than two thousand. If I continue to carry it with her, she may swear that she will win, or she may withdraw the registration card, and if I take the crab for 2,000 yuan, I will wear the "good name" of punch in the antique market.

Lot 90 Qing Guangxu pastel flower and bird pattern pen wash debut, I should be 4200 for the second time, the hand holding the card has not been put down, in my left rear sounded a crisp and neat words of Changshu words, 5000! I met the Lord who swore to be obtained again, and gave up.

Sitting there and watching people be elated, but they didn't get anything, the more I thought about it, the more unconvinced I became. Riveting to wait until Lot 154 Qing Tongzhi pastel butterfly pattern pen wash debuted, I was the first to pay 3,000 yuan, and the hand holding the card did not put down, the big deal to carry 4,000 yuan, but also to fight for some face. Unexpectedly, except for me, no one should be offered. After the meeting, a few people told me that they also fancied the pen wash, and the psychological price was three thousand five, but seeing that I was resolutely holding up the card, they didn't come to fight with me. I said yes, fight with me, even if you fight, but the price will definitely be very high, isn't that a bad deal with the banknotes, and then I feel distressed and regretful.

At four o'clock, the exchange meeting ended smoothly, and I finally gained a little from this trip. Judging from the transaction situation and the atmosphere of the scene, this is a very successful private collection exchange activity, no wonder Zhou Gongtai was a little overjoyed and announced that he was going to hold it again before the Spring Festival. Hehe, when the time comes, I will also take some small things out to join in the fun, because according to my observation, modern, beautiful, complete, open-door, porcelain under 5,000 yuan is the most popular, and my collection belongs to this category.

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