Chapter 726: Two foreigners are on the bar
"Friends, it's exciting time ahead!" Jameson's sentiment was also high, "The finale of this auction, the German antique wine glass, is about to be presented to everyone! ”
Everyone in the audience applauded warmly, and Finn showed eager eyes, staring intently at the wine glass in Miss Manners's hand.
The hostess took the wine glass and showed everyone a circle, and then carefully placed it on the middle table.
Jameson explains:
"It was commissioned by a mysterious guest who said that the cup had been handed down by his ancestors and had been made by a Western missionary. After careful identification by our experts, it was confirmed that this is a ceramic embossed beer mug from 18th-century Germany. ”
Jameson paused, then introduced in his characteristic demagogic tone:
"This beer mug has gone through a long time, but it is still in perfect condition, and it is as good as a cultural object preserved in a professional museum, which is really rare! The beer mug has a strong German Bavarian style, the tin lid on the mouth of the cup is still as bright as new, and the relief also vividly shows the beer culture of Germany in the 18th century......"
Finn was very excited in his heart, he was in the same mood as Fang Yang just now, and he couldn't help but grit his teeth a little, hoping that Jameson would end his advocacy and let everyone really go on stage to see this magical antique wine glass, and then start the auction.
Perhaps hearing Finn's heart, Jameson finally stopped chattering and announced:
"Now, interested friends can come to the stage to taste it up close. The old rule, ten minutes, no touching the lot! We look forward to your cooperation. ”
As soon as Jameson's words ended, Finn and Kohler stood up almost at the same time, and walked to the front of the stage with some impatience.
"Teacher, won't you go on stage to take a look? Foreign antiques are rare! Fang Yang, who was relaxed, asked Master Bai Yan in a low voice.
"I don't study much of Western cultural relics." Master Bai Yan said with a smile, "And the interest is not very great. ”
This beer mug will undoubtedly be today's "standard king", but what kind of person Master Bai Yan is, he naturally won't look at anything he is not interested in.
"yes!" Fang Yang also smiled and echoed, "Speaking of which, our 5,000-year-old cultural heritage in China is more brilliant, and the things of foreign devils are nothing to look at." ”
"That friend of yours seems interested." Master Bai Yan said with a smile.
"He's a little tyrant who doesn't care about money." Fang Yang said with a grin.
Han Wenhai, who was separated from Fang Yang by a master of Baiyan, also said:
"You're not far off! Seven million to buy a musical instrument, if my aunt knew, she would definitely say that you were a loser! ”
"Xiao Fang Yang, I also think it's a little more expensive...... Master Bai Yan also said.
He personally appraised the guqin, although he only came to a judgment roughly from the Southern Song Dynasty, but Master Bai Yan has always been meticulous, so after the collector left, he also checked a large number of classics, and indeed did not find any records about this guqin.
At this point, the market value of the guqin is greatly reduced.
Master Bai Yan's judgment is basically about six million, and this is still counting the auction factor, and the actual valuation may be less than five million. Now that Fang Yang had spent more than a million to buy it, in the eyes of Master Bai Yan, he felt that the gains outweighed the losses.
"Teacher, Brother Dahai, it's all filmed, don't talk about me." Fang Yang said with a smile, "It's hard to buy money if you have it!" I just love this guqin, and it's worth the extra money. ”
Han Wenhai pursed his lips and said:
"I'm too lazy to talk about you! Anyway, you're not bad for money......"
Master Bai Yan also smiled and stopped talking. Anyway, Fang Yang has already taken pictures, and it can be seen that he really wants this guqin very much, and he has this economic strength, so what else is he doing!
Ten minutes passed quickly as the three of them chatted, and Finn returned to his seat with an excited expression, and he said:
"Fang, this is the most beautiful beer mug I've ever seen, I must get him!"
Fang Yang smiled, spurted his lips behind him and asked:
"Are you ready for a fight with him?"
Finn's smile froze, and he said:
"There should be no problem......
No matter how you hear this, it makes people feel unconfident.
Indeed, although Finn is the heir of the Finn family, this is only a name, and his wealth is limited after all, plus he is very keen on collecting antique wine glasses, and most of the family's dividends and other income are invested in this.
So in a hurry, he only raised two million euros, which is equivalent to about 20 million Huaxia coins.
It stands to reason that this amount of money is already more than double the starting price, and there is no problem in winning this beer glass.
But if you have Kohler, it's not easy to say......
In fact, if Kohler had won the competition with Fang Yang just now, it would have been good news for Finn, after all, it would have consumed millions of dollars of the other party's funds!
However, this thought only flashed through Fin's mind for a moment, and then disappeared immediately. Fang Yang was his friend, and he naturally couldn't hope that his friend would fail.
So at the last moment, Finn even turned back to Kohler with a meaningful smile, which also made the suspicious Kohler directly give up bidding for the guqin, which was equivalent to helping Fang Yang.
When Jameson saw that everyone was seated, he said:
"Okay, now you can bid, the starting price of this antique wine glass is 8 million Huaxia coins, and the price increase is not less than 50,000 Huaxia coins each time."
Depending on the lot, the minimum markup is also different.
Otherwise, if a thing worth tens of millions is added by 1,2000, then the year of the monkey and the month of the horse can distinguish the winner and loser?
As the finale, it is naturally the most precious in the audience.
However, there was no scene of people competing for bids. First, this wine glass is too expensive, and the starting price alone has already made many people retreat; Second, most of the people here are Chinese collectors, and only a few people are interested in collecting Western miscellaneous items.
So after Jameson announced the start of the auction, there was a brief cold scene.
It took about half a minute for a collector to tentatively come up with a price:
"Eight million and fifty thousand!"
This is because he saw that no one was bidding, and the glass was indeed worth so much money, so the collector would symbolically add 50,000 yuan to see how his luck was.
If 800,000 can be taken down, even if it is sold again, there will still be a lot of money.
But his wishful thinking naturally failed, and seeing that everyone's bidding was not very positive, Kohler directly raised his card and said:
"10 million Huaxia coins!"
Jameson happily said:
"Mr. Kohler on No. 99 bids 10 million Huaxia coins! What a generous buyer, but our vintage glasses are more than worth the price, and it's no exaggeration to say that this is the best-preserved and historically valuable German antique beer mug I've seen in the auction industry for over twenty years! ”
In the bidding for the guqin just now, Kohler's watch xiàn was very eye-catching, so Jameson also learned about the information of the No. 99 buyer from the staff during the break, so Jameson also called out Kohler's name.
Kohler felt the gaze of the crowd, and he enjoyed the feeling of being in the spotlight, with his trademark elegant smile on his face.
Fang Yang gently patted Finn on the shoulder and said:
"Dude, it's your turn! Kill him! ”
Finn nodded heavily, and without hesitation raised his bidding card, and called out in German:
"Eleven million Huaxia coins!"
Fang Yang acted as a temporary translator, repeating Finn's words in Chinese.
The two Germans jumped out, and the collectors, who had been a little interested in the glass, also retreated when they saw the mutual intransigence between the two.
Once again, the auction of the ownership of antique wine glasses has become a two-man show.
Kohler was also one of the protagonists in the last confrontation scene, and he retreated himself, will he fail this time? Many people thought about watching a drama in their hearts.
Finn was not surprised by Kohler's expected bid, and when he saw Finn at the auction, he knew that he didn't want to get the beer glass without paying a certain price.
However, Kohler is still very confident, because he has a lot of money, and the budget of about five million that was originally used to buy the guqin has not been spent, and he believes that Finn will definitely not be able to scrape together too much money in his hurry.
At best, it will cost a little more money, and the glass will be mine! Khloe thought.
"Fifteen million Huaxia coins!" After thinking about it, Kohler simply raised the price by another four million at once.
Anyway, Finn will definitely not let himself succeed lightly, instead of grinding the price slowly, it is better to add it in place and make him completely desperate!
After listening to Fang Yang's translation, after Finn knew Kohler's offer, he held up the sign and was about to quote, Fang Yang gently pulled his sleeve and said:
"Finn, don't be in a hurry to increase the price, learn from my approach, no matter how much money he pays, you will add 50,000 on top of him!"
Finn, who was also a little hot-headed, listened to Fang Yang's words, and suddenly calmed down, he thought about it, nodded with a smile and said:
"Great idea!"
Then without any further hesitation, he raised his bidding card and said:
"Fifteen million and fifty thousand Huaxia coins!"
When Fang Yang translated Finn's words, collectors immediately began to discuss. It's this trick again, Fang Yang used it just now, and it made that Khloe angry, and now Finn must have accepted Fang Yang's advice.
It's just that this time it changed from 10,000 to 50,000, because the minimum bid range is 50,000.
"Damn it!" Khloe cursed inwardly.
However, he quickly calmed down, and quickly calculated his funds, and also roughly estimated the amount of money that Finn could raise in two or three days.
He was going to quote a price that Finn couldn't afford at once, because looking at this posture, the final price would rise so much anyway, he was really fed up with the feeling of being played like a monkey by the other party!
So, Khloe thought about it for half a minute, and even Jameson had already begun to count down:
"Fifteen million and fifty thousand first ......"
At this time, Kohler raised his head, held up a sign and shouted:
"Nineteen million Huaxia coins!"