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This silver flask has a unique shape, it is a three-legged silver flask, the flask has a slender neck, and below it is an oval silver kettle, and there are very fine carved patterns on the body of the jug.

It is carved with various images of Cupid, the goddess of love, some holding a coffee tree branch, others holding a lion mask, shells and leaves.

And the most important thing is that there is a lion's coat of arms on the neck of this pot, which is the logo of pure British ninety-two-five silver, which is commonly known as the leopard's head.

This shows that this flask is a British silverware, and the style of the pattern on it is completely different from that of the silverware tea set, which shows that they are not together at all, nor are they a set.

And more importantly, the silver tea set was engraved without the intense white light that flashed on the silver flask.

What does this mean, this shows that if the silver tea set is an ordinary collection, then this silver wine pot is a precious antique, but he was mixed up and hidden in this tea set.

And his owner, the old black standing in front of the counter, obviously didn't know the origin of this wine jug, and failed to distinguish this wine jug from this tea set.

Isn't that cheap to deliver to your door? It seems that the good luck that I have just exhausted seems to have recovered a little more.

Jin Muchen was secretly happy in his heart, but he was silent on the surface, he carefully checked the set of silverware, it was high in quantity, and it was weighed, and it didn't seem to mean to distinguish the wine pot from the tea set.

Finally, after finishing a set of statistics in hand. He turned to the old black and asked, "What is the name of this gentleman?" ”

"You can just call me Evan."

"Okay. Evan. May I ask you how you got this tea set? And what is their origin? ”

As soon as he heard this question, this old black snorted a little angrily, and he didn't know if it was because Jin Muchen's question was more acute, or because of this tea set, which reminded him of something.

But soon Jin Muchen got the answer from his answer.

"This set of silverware tea sets is a tea set produced by Tiffany & Co. in 1913, you see there is a bottom model underneath. As for the origin of this set of silverware? Okay, I'll get to the point. They are my severance pay. ”

When the old man said this, he was still snorting angrily.

It turned out that this old man had been working in Miami in the early years, and like the black man Jin Muchen met when he first made his fortune, he was also a servant for a wealthy white family.

has been doing it for decades, and his master is not bad to him, and he can be regarded as a guest and host, but unfortunately a few years ago, his master was old. In the end, he died of illness.

And the children of the master came back and took over the inheritance of his master, but the children of his master. It's not so kind to them as old employees.

Because his master's children did not work in Miami, he had no intention of staying anywhere, and planned to sell his master's villa.

Before that, they first gave a severance pay to these old employees who had served in the old house for decades, but some gave money, and some gave goods.

Because those children are obviously not as good as their father, they are living a relatively poor life and do not have much cash in hand, so they came up with a way to pay off their debts in kind, and used some things in the villa to pay severance pay to the servants who were about to be dismissed.

And this set of silverware is the severance pay that this old man gets.

Speaking of which, although a few years have passed, the old man is still angry.

Because of his age, he didn't want to go back to New York, after all, it would be more appropriate to retire in a place like Miami, but as a notoriously expensive place in the United States, Miami does not welcome poor people like him.

In the end, the old man had no choice but to return to New York with the rags that he had saved in Miami for decades and start his career as a stall.

In the past few years, this old man has been playing guerrilla in several stall markets in New York, and his life is very ordinary.

In a few days, one of his grandsons was going to college in California, but the family had not been able to make up for the tuition, so the old man took out this set of silverware that he had been reluctant to buy and came to their antique shop.

He was reluctant to sell this set of silverware after setting up a stall for so many years, but today he was really forced to do so.

Jin Muchen listened and nodded, when this old man was telling the story, he kept staring at him, and he was more sincere, not like he was lying, the origin of this set of silverware should be true.

When the old man asked him to turn the silverware up and look at the bottom of the money, he was a little embarrassed, and he forgot about it just now.

After the old man finished telling the story, he picked up the silverware one by one and looked at the bottom of the paragraph, sure enough, the old man did not lie, the bottom of the silverware tea set was engraved with the Tiffany 1913 logo, it seems that it should really be a tea set produced by Tiffany.

Tiffany & Co. is a well-known American luxury brand, now known for its jewelry and diamond jewelry, but now they do everything, not only jewelry, but also clothing and shoes.

Especially Tiffany's women's shoes, which are quite famous in the United States.

And 1913 should have been the time of their boom, when they were involved in everything, not only the jewelry business, but also table lamps, tea sets, and so on.

As long as it's something that makes money, they do it.

No wonder the style of engraving on this set of silverware was different from that of English silverware he had seen before, and from French silverware.

The English and French silverware he had seen were known for their beautiful carvings and intricate workmanship, while American silverware did not seem to have inherited the style of their cousin at all, but was in its own vein.

Jin Muchen remembers that he had read a book on antique silverware tasting published in the United States, and that the style of American-made zuò silverware seemed to be called American Art Nouveau.

This is a bit of a lofty statement, but in fact they are putting gold on their own faces, and in the final analysis, because the craftsmanship of their craftsmen at that time is not as prominent as that of the silversmiths in England and France.

This set of silverware tea set should be Tiffany's, yes, but under the silver wine jug, there is no Tiffany base, and combined with the leopard head coat of arms on the neck of the wine jug, Jin Muchen concluded that the wine jug should not be the same as this set of silverware.

But the old black man didn't mention it, and of course he didn't want to say it, now he just wanted to end the deal as soon as possible, and then study the origin of the flask.

"Okay, Evan, I've got this set of silverware, how much do you want?"

"Well, this ...... 2,000 ...... No...... Three thousand dollars......"

Evan shuddered a price, he had set up stalls in several antique markets in New York, so of course he knew about the price of silverware.

Although his set of silverware is genuine Tiffany's, it is far from the same age and craftsmanship compared with the silverware of the same era in England and France.

The price of fine silverware produced in England and France at the same time is only one or two thousand, but at this time he quoted three thousand yuan, and of course he will feel a little bottomless in his heart.

But the reason why he quoted so high was also to make room for future bargaining, lest Jin Muchen bargain too hard for a while, and he would be unbearable.

But what he didn't expect was that the young guy opposite, after listening to his offer, actually opened his mouth and smiled and said one word: "Deal!" ”

Evan walked out of the door of the Kim antique store with three thousand dollars in a daze, while Jin Muchen smiled and took the set of silverware to the workbench behind the counter.

Fang Bo also stepped forward at this time, and then dragged the magnifying glass ring light on the side of the workbench, picked up the silverware on the table, and looked at it carefully.

After a while, he put down the coffee pot in his hand, and then turned his head and asked Jin Muchen to arrive.

"Mu Chen, these coffee pots, teapots or something, there's nothing unusual about them? During this time, I also read a lot of books on silver collecting, but it can be said that the most worthy of collecting is the first choice of British and French silverware, as for American silverware, don't look at it as a Tiffany product, but it is still not on the table, let alone compared with British and French silverware, even compared with German, Swedish, Russian silver, it is not comparable, why are you willing to pay 3,000 dollars for them? ”

Jin Muchen smiled and put down the wine jug in his hand, then turned his head and said to Fang Bo.

"Uncle Fang, in fact, I am willing to spend three thousand yuan to accept this set of things, not for that set of tea sets, but for this wine jug."

As he spoke, he pushed the wine jug in front of Uncle Fang, and Uncle Fang dragged the ring lamp again, put the flask underneath, and examined it carefully.

"Well, it's British ninety-two-five silverware, but it's nothing unusual, it's not a set, it's a single piece. In this way, the price should not be too high, right? ”

"I can't say for sure, but when I saw this flask, I had a feeling that it must be something good. I think he must have a legacy. I'm going to do some research and see if I can find out if I can find its inheritance. ”

Jin Muchen couldn't tell Uncle Fang, I accepted it because the jewels on it were too obvious, so I could only make an excuse casually, but I didn't expect Uncle Fang to eat him very much, nodded and continued.

"Well, it's okay, your kid has always had an accurate eye in collecting, and if you're lucky, maybe this wine jug is from a famous person, haha, then your kid will pick up a big bargain!" (To be continued......)