Chapter 243: What the hell?
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These two sets of silverware, it should not be used by European royal families, so the price is not expensive, only 3,000 US dollars a set, Jin Muchen mainly likes the Chinese style on the silverware, so he accepted it.
As to why the second set was only 85 percent pure, it could be sold for as much as the price of the English coffee pot of 192.5 percent purity, simply because this set of thirteen rows of silverware far surpassed the first set in terms of finesse.
In particular, the intricate craftsmanship used on this set of silverware is not comparable to that of the Chinese-style coffee pot in England.
The British coffee pot is just a simple carving of a few Chinese style patterns on the side of the coffee pot, and this set of thirteen rows of silverware, the complex craftsmanship used on it, is the essence of Chinese silverware manufacturing, exquisite patterns combined with complex craftsmanship, this is the perfect combination of technology and beauty.
As soon as the boss saw that Jin Muchen was so generous, he directly accepted two sets of silverware from him, and he didn't bargain at all, and his face was happy.
These foreigners are straight, happy in their hearts, and they don't hide it on their faces at all.
happily helped Jin Muchen wrap up the two sets of coffee pots and send them to Jin Muchen, and then said: "Sir, you can pick and choose, I still have a lot of good things here in Julio, as long as you can say that you can name the silverware, I will definitely have it here." β
Jin Muchen ordered six thousand yuan to him and smiled slightly, this boss is big enough. So I smiled and asked him, "Do you have any Japanese silverware here?" β
Japanese silverware is more famous in the West than Chinese silverware. This is mainly related to the abundance of silver in Japan at that time. It has a lot to do with being good at making silverware.
As soon as Julio heard this, his gray beard picked up: "Don't say it, I really have one here, you see." β
As he spoke, he pointed to the bottom of his booth, where he had also built a shelf to better display the silverware, and there were some large silverware on top of the shelves. For example, the two sets of coffee pots that Jin Muchen collected before were relatively large and looked very eye-catching, so they were placed on top in order to attract customers.
And some small silverware with small size was placed under the shelf, and along the place of his finger, Jin Muchen looked down and couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat.
There happened to be a cigarette case lying on top of an old book, and it wasn't the snuff box that really made Jin Muchen's heart beat faster. It's the old book under the snuffbox.
He had been struggling to find the golden light that flashed in front of his eyes before, but when he came to this stall. But he was dazzled by the white silverware on the stall, and he was never able to accurately locate the source of the golden light.
Now I looked at the boss's fingers, and between the pages of the book under the silver-white cigarette case, a golden light was constantly flickering back and forth, and the treasure he saw must be hidden in the pages of this book.
However, Jin Muchen didn't show any emotion on the surface, and then lightly picked up the cigarette case first, and after the cigarette case left the book, he realized that this cigarette box was not a mortal thing, and there were bursts of strong white light flashing on it.
His heart moved, but his face remained unfazed, and he opened the cigarette case.
On the inside of the cigarette case is engraved a seal of "Sterling Silver Inaba Shoji", which is engraved with the traditional pattern of the Japanese Imperial Family.
Looking at the bottom of the inside of the cigarette box, when he saw the badge on it, his heart was beating sharply, the badge looked very familiar, it was a blooming chrysanthemum, if you count carefully, you can just count this chrysanthemum has exactly sixteen petals!
There is such an engraving as sterling silver Inaba, which already shows that the origin of this cigarette case is not small, and it should be used exclusively by the Japanese royal family.
When you see this sixteen-petal chrysanthemum, it is even more correct, because the name of such a chrysanthemum badge is called 'Sixteen-petal Yaemoto Chrysanthemum', which indicates that this cigarette case can only be used by the Japanese imperial family.
In this way, this cigarette case has become a very good treasure, you must know that the Japanese imperial family, but it has lasted for thousands of years, without interruption, even if there is a history of being hollowed out by the shogunate, but this family has continued to this day.
And the things used by their palace are rarely spread outside, but I didn't expect to come across a cigarette case used by the imperial family here today.
That's a rarity, isn't it?
"Boss, how do you sell this cigarette box?"
"Huh? If you like it, then take it for 500 yuan! β
The boss is obviously very good at Western European silverware, but he doesn't know much about Japanese silverware, especially the traditional Chinese seal engraved on the inside of this cigarette case, and he may not understand what it means at all.
As for the family emblem of the royal family that day, he didn't understand it, otherwise he would never be able to shout this price for this cigarette box, and he would have to pay a hundred times the price.
Jin Muchen was silent, and then handed the cigarette case to the boss: "Wrap it up for me!" β
The boss is crazy at this time, this kid is really a big money owner, he won't bargain with you at all when he buys things, and the boss doesn't like such a buyer?
The boss went to pack the cigarette case with a smile, while Jin Muchen pretended to casually pick up the old book that was originally under the cigarette case.
The old book is a black book, there is no name of the book on the book cover, it seems that the black book should be matched, looking at the content inside, it is actually an introduction to the city of San Francisco in the nineteenth century, which should be equivalent to some local historical documents such as county chronicles in our country.
The inside of the book is very worn, the title page is already yellow and moldy, and there are traces of insects in many places.
Jin Muchen frowned and flipped through a few pages, and suddenly felt a hard place at the back of the book, but he didn't rush to open it and take a closer look, because the boss had already packed the cigarette case and sent it back to him at this time.
"Boss, what's your book?"
Jin Muchen asked with the book pretending to be puzzled, and the boss also thought that he was just bored waiting, so he picked up the book and flipped through it to pass the time.
So he smiled and said, "That book is the book left over from my previous business of antique books, newspapers and magazines, and it should be an introduction to the city of San Francisco." However, because the damage is relatively strict, it has not been sold. Later, the market for this collection of books, newspapers and magazines was not very good, so I changed my career and started to make antique silverware, and I left this book as a stepping stone, what? Do you like it? If you like it, you can take it, no money! β
As soon as this boss said this, Jin Muchen shouted happily for the truth; Praise God!
But at this time, he could only suppress the joy in his heart, and then nodded at the boss with a smile: "Then thank you!" β
After speaking, he stuffed the book into the paper bag handed over by the boss, and then counted another five hundred yuan for the boss and handed it to him, and the boss counted Franklin in his hand with a smile, and waved at him: "Thank you, sir, welcome to come back next time." β
And he smiled and nodded, and at the same time replied in his heart, I should thank you.
No wonder this boss didn't know the royal family's cigarette box that day, he used to collect books, newspapers and magazines, but he didn't do well in this business? I didn't even find the mystery in this book.
There are many people here, and Jin Muchen is not good at opening the book here to find out the mystery inside, just at this time, Candace came over with a bag of food, and Jin Muchen hurriedly grabbed her and walked straight to the outside of the market.
"Why don't you go shopping?"
"Haha, we'll come back tomorrow, today's harvest is enough!"
drove Candace around the town, found a hotel to stay in, and when he entered the room, Jin Muchen turned over the old book.
"Huh? What is this, why does it smell so big? β
Candace fanned his little hand in front of his nose, apparently unable to stand the musty smell of the broken book.
"This is an introduction to the city of San Francisco in the 19th century, and the taste is really not small."
Apparently uninterested in such a thing, Candace got up and walked over to open the window, and went to the bathroom to take a shower.
Of course, Jin Muchen was not interested in this broken book, what he was interested in was the things wrapped in the black cover of this book.
This black cover is obviously not matched with the book, it should be matched later, and it is a very thick and hard kind of paper shell cover, he put the book upside down, from the last page to turn forward, as soon as he opened the black cover at the back, he saw that between the page and the book cover, there is a circular imprint.
He took out a knife and cut the black book cover with three strokes and five by two, and a round golden coin rolled out of it.
Obviously, the book did not know the owner in front of it, and in order to hide such a gold coin, it was sealed in a hard-shell book cover with papier-mΓ’chΓ©, and then wrapped around the book.
After so many years, because the book was not well preserved, especially because it was very likely to have been soaked in water, the hard-shell cover was soaked softly, and then after it dried again, the imprint of the coin was revealed from the cover, but the previous owners of the book may not have paid attention to the book cover behind the book at all, so they did not find the coin.
Jin Muchen picked up the coin and brought it to his eyes, his eyes widened, what the hell? Three dollars!? (To be continued......)