Chapter 9: The Pickle Jar
The Jinling Cultural Relics Appraisal Institute is an official for-profit institution under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau, and the certificates issued here are authoritative.
Boss Huang has been involved in the antiques industry for many years, often dealing with the cultural relics appraisal institute, there are many acquaintances, find a relationship to do some private work, anyway, he doesn't need the identification certificate issued by the cultural relics appraisal institute, he just wants to determine the age of these three Jingkang ingots.
Doing private work is much more efficient than going through formal channels at a glance, and it didn't take long for the identification results to come out, and after carbon 14 testing, these three Jingkang ingots have indeed been more than 900 years old.
Boss Huang smiled, and had already planned in his heart how to dispose of these three Jingkang ingots, one for the auction, one for the town store, and one for his own collection.
Tang Dou is actually a little worried, although these three big coins were brought back by him from the Northern Song Dynasty, but they were brought back to modern times in an instant through the ring, if you only say that these three big coins have existed in this world for a little more than a year, will the carbon 14 test conclude that these three big coins are newly made?
Now this worry no longer exists, it seems that no matter how new those things in ancient times are, as long as they are brought to modern times, the years will still engrave their own rings on those things.
Boss Huang and Tang Dou completed the transfer procedures directly at the bank at the corner of the street, and Boss Huang excitedly told Tang Dou to go home and look through the inventory left by Tang Dou's father to see if there were any other coin treasures.
Boss Huang has been in the ancient coin business for so many years, and so far he has only collected three of the fifty treasures of ancient coins, and he also knows that he will definitely not be able to collect all these fifty treasures in his lifetime, but after all, he also has a goal, right?
Tang Dou responded with a smile, it was really not difficult for him to collect fifty treasures of all ancient coins, but he also knew that he couldn't take out a few more treasures so quickly, and he had to go down for a long time.
Returning to the store, Mengzi greeted Tang Dou: "Douzi, you are back." ”
Tang Dou had just earned 240,000 yuan, and he was happy in his heart, and joked with Mengzi with a smile: "Brother Mengzi has fooled out something good again." ”
"What's the call of fooling?" Mengzi smiled and gave Tang Dou a punch, and said in a low voice: "I thought no one would buy that broken pickle jar, but I didn't expect it to be sold just now, guess how much it was sold?" ”
Tang Dou glanced at Mengzi, he moved back from the Daoguang period a small lotus pot, but he was tired enough, but after Mengzi saw this lotus pot, he actually said that it was similar to the pickle jar of pickles in his hometown, and Tang Dou was angry enough, Yang Deng saw this lotus jar, and commented that although this lotus jar is old enough, but the workmanship is rough, it should be the folk living utensils produced by the folk kiln, and it does not have much collection value. At that time, the three of them estimated the reserve price of this lotus pot to be between seven or eight hundred to one thousand yuan, and Tang Dou slandered himself for a long time for this, knowing that why bother with so much effort, it was better to just grab something else.
Mengzi mysteriously stretched out three fingers at Tang Dou, Tang Dou's heart moved, could it be that he sold it for 30,000?
Tang Dou raised his eyebrows and asked at Mengzi, "Three hundred thousand?" ”
Mengzi's legs were weak, and he reached out and grabbed Tang Dou's shoulder: "I'll go, you really treat that pickle jar as a treasure, three thousand yuan is not enough, and it is still 300,000 yuan." ”
Tang Dou laughed: "Three thousand is not a lot, eat a big dinner at night." ”
Three thousand is a fart, it took so much effort, and he couldn't even catch up with a fraction of the three Jingkang ingots, of course, Tang Dou would not say this, just now Boss Huang told him not to leak out the transaction between the two, which also coincided with Tang Dou's wish not to publicize it.
It's a big secret that you can travel through any era at will, and once this secret is suspected, I'm afraid that the rest of the world will not be peaceful.
No, according to this momentum, I have to hurry up and get something, otherwise the things in this store will be sold out in a few days.
Tang Dou's head hurts a little, and he can't move things from the backyard to the front all at once, right? That would be suspicious.
Seeing Tang Dou bowing his head and going to the back, Mengzi hurriedly grabbed Tang Dou: "Don't go, the gentleman who bought the jar is still waiting for you in the reception room." ”
No wonder Mengzi greeted him at the door of the store, it turned out to be like this.
Tang Dou answered and walked into the reception room, and saw a polite middle-aged man sitting on the sofa on the phone, he nodded and smiled at the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man naturally saw Tang Dou, seeing that Tang Dou was so young, he thought that Tang Dou was also a guy in the store, so he smiled back apologetically, and stretched out his hand to point to the phone in his hand.
Tang Dou smiled and made a gesture for you to continue, and walked to the window to casually look at the tourists on the street to avoid suspicion.
The middle-aged man did not reveal any information on the phone, and Tang Dou did not deliberately listen, only knowing that he was calling the teacher, and he was talking about the antiques displayed in Tang Dou's store, and he strongly suggested that his teacher come and see it in person.
A smile appeared on the corner of Tang Dou's mouth, of course it was a good thing that someone helped him promote it for free.
Soon, the middle-aged man ended the call, Tang Dou turned around and walked towards the middle-aged man, smiled and stretched out his hand: "Hello this gentleman, I am the owner of this shop, my surname is Tang." ”
"You're the boss?" The middle-aged man was slightly surprised, stood up and shook Tang Dou's hand, and said with an undisguised smile: "So young, I thought you were a guy in the store." ”
The two shook hands with a smile, Tang Dou added some tea to the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man introduced himself as Gao Mingde.
After a few pleasantries, Gao Mingde said with a smile: "Boss Tang, I see that the antiques in your store are a bit interesting, quite miscellaneous, and the age span is also quite large, it seems that Boss Tang's purchase channels are quite broad." Hehe, Boss Tang, don't get me wrong, I don't mean anything else, and I don't want to explore your business**, I just want you to help me find this kind of lotus jar similar antiques. ”
Tang Dou raised his eyebrows slightly, could it be this kind of lotus pot or what kind of treasure? Is Yang Deng looking away?
Tang Dou asked with a smile: "Uncle De, although this lotus pot is only about two hundred years old now, there are not many that can be preserved intact until now, and it is really rare that the condition is so well preserved, I also happened to collect such a one, but don't worry, if you encounter similar things again, I will definitely help you stay." ”
It's a coincidence, when I crossed the past, I happened to fall in the jar, and I didn't find anything good after turning around, so I simply moved this jar back, it seems that the place really looks like an abandoned pickle workshop, and the yard is full of dozens of such broken jars, but Tang Dou really doesn't want to do this kind of work that is tired and not much profit, so he opened his mouth to shirk.
There is no harm in doing business, and Gao Mingde's age is also similar to Tang Dou's father's age, and this Uncle De is also a good name.
Gao Mingde smiled slightly: "Boss Tang, don't hide it, my teacher is engaged in folklore research, this kind of thing may not have much value for collectors, but it still has a certain auxiliary value for the study of folklore, and we as disciples can only try our best to meet the wishes of the elderly." ”
I see, Tang Dou smiled down, although he dropped out of school, but he still has a lot of respect for knowledgeable people, if it is convenient, he doesn't mind getting a few more distinctive ancient folk relics back.
After a polite conversation, Gao Mingde shook hands with Tang Dou with a smile and said goodbye, Tang Dou kept sending Gao Mingde out of the store, turned around and saw Yang Deng explaining a broken Ming Dynasty spinning wheel to a customer, and smiled and leaned over.
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