Chapter 516: Jewels
This situation frightened Jin Muchen, you must know that the ancient jade of Hongshan, a few years ago, especially when the domestic archaeological community emphasized the Hongshan culture, it was once a highly sought-after collection in the domestic ancient jade market.
At that time, it was 1996, when the concept of domestic Hongshan culture had just risen in the domestic archaeological community, and the most representative antique of Hongshan culture at that time was Hongshan ancient jade.
That year, there was a special auction of ancient jade in the capital, and Jin Muchen remembered that he had read the information, and there was a piece of Hongshan ancient jade at that time, which became the bid king of that auction, and it was auctioned for 2.65 million yuan.
That was in 1996, and the 2.65 million at that time, if calculated according to the actual purchasing power, could definitely be equivalent to 20 million yuan now.
And now, even if it is a well-loved work of mutton fat and white jade, if you want to sell for more than 20 million yuan, it depends on how big your vessel is, and who has used it, which is often referred to as historical inheritance.
It can be seen that the status of Hongshan ancient jade in the ancient jade industry, but in the following nearly two decades, the status of Hongshan ancient jade in the collection world has declined rapidly.
The reason why this situation occurs is not that this Hongshan ancient jade is not valuable, but because the authenticity of this ancient jade is still special before, but it is precisely because of the genuine product of this ancient jade that it is loved by collectors in the market, so there are too many counterfeiters in the market, and fakes are rampant, so although many people like things very much, they dare not sell easily.
The reason is that the threshold for counterfeiting of Sequoia Ancient Jade is too low.
First of all, this kind of Hongshan ancient jade, because of the birthplace, the jade material used is not the top one.
The material of the ancient jade of the Red Mountain. It is generally divided into three kinds, one is dark green jasper similar to the color of new @jiang manas jasper, and the other is Kuandian jade and Xiuyan jade.
The raw materials of these types of jade are now very easy to find and the prices are not high, which makes it easier for counterfeiters to collect raw materials.
On the other hand, there is the color aspect. In addition, it is very easy to counterfeit in terms of carving, so it greatly lowers the threshold for counterfeiting.
According to Jin Muchen's understanding, some counterfeiters specially purchased dozens of pieces to hundreds of pieces of green and white jade materials from the market, and then soaked them in a certain concentration of hydrofluoric acid solution, and then drilled, polished, and polished.
After a few weeks of hard work. At a cost of only a few hundred yuan, you can make a fake piece of Hongshan Ancient Jade, and then sell it for hundreds of thousands as soon as it changes hands.
After the piece of Hongshan ancient jade became famous at the auction, a large number of fakes of various Hongshan ancient jade soon appeared on the market.
Many collectors who were originally very enthusiastic about the ancient jade of Hongshan were fooled, which also led to the rapid fading of collectors' enthusiasm for the ancient jade of Hongshan.
In addition, the publication of archaeological reports in the domestic archaeological community in the later period poured cold water on the collection of ancient jade in Hongshan.
It turns out that the amount of ancient jade found in this red mountain is actually not small. However, a lot of Hongshan ancient jade was actually lost overseas in large quantities before 1949.
Later, Chinese archaeologists discovered it. And when this thing is valued, there are only about 200 pieces of Hongshan ancient jade that can be found and counted all over the country.
As soon as such a quantity was announced, it immediately cooled down the collection fever of Hongshan Ancient Jade significantly.
Collectors are not fools, although this Red Mountain Ancient Jade is good. But the archaeological people have already said that there are only about 200 pieces of this thing in the country, why do you have so many on the market, and there are dozens or hundreds of dollars at every turn, where did they come from?
It's hard to be you. They all went to Inner @ Mongolia, and Liao @ Ning went to dig the ancient tombs?
Besides, talking about the things of the Hongshan cultural period, how can there be any ancient tombs for you to dig, and the place where you find the ancient jade of Hongshan is generally the settlement of the Hongshan people at that time.
Or on the battlefield of two tribes, when one tribe is wiped out by the other, the Red Mountain Ancient Jade owned by their tribe may be lost on the battlefield.
You must know that the people of that era didn't even have the concept of a city-state or a house, let alone any funeral goods.
Therefore, many collectors have understood that most of the Hongshan ancient jade circulating in the market is fake.
In this way, because there are too few genuine goods and too many fakes circulating in the market, the collection boom of this Hongshan ancient jade has gradually declined.
And the counterfeiters are gradually extinct, so that in the current market, it is very difficult for you to really find a few pieces of Hongshan ancient jade.
And in this way, it is not difficult for Jin Muchen to understand why there are so few people in front of the booth of these pieces of Hongshan Ancient Jade at this time.
The guys who are emotional must have regarded these pieces of Hongshan Ancient Jade as fakes.
It's no wonder they think so, after all, in recent years, although some Hongshan ancient jade has been lost overseas through various channels, in fact, most of the so-called Hongshan ancient jade are fakes.
Many people who don't know the truth may be fooled a few times in the first few times, but in the future, it is impossible for people to fall in the same river twice in a row.
In this way, it is no wonder that the people who participated in this underground auction this time will not be interested in these pieces of Hongshan ancient jade.
But it's okay that they don't pay attention, isn't this my chance?
After figuring out such a joint, Jin Muchen was also secretly happy at this time, after all, this was a rare opportunity to pick up leaks.
Others are afraid of buying fakes, but this is not a problem for him, although he doesn't know how these pieces of Hongshan Ancient Jade came from, but with the assistance of his golden eyes, he can completely conclude that these pieces of Hongshan Ancient Jade are definitely genuine.
It really can't be real anymore, and these pieces of Hongshan ancient jade can be said to cover the most representative works in Hongshan ancient jade.
For example, the jade dragon, the jade pig dragon, and the Gouyun-shaped jade pendant, these jade pendants are the most representative accessories in the ancient jade of Hongshan.
And the workmanship and texture of these pieces of jade are not bad, if you can win it at a low price, then this underground auction, even if you don't come in vain.
As soon as he thought of this, Jin Muchen's heart couldn't be happier, and when he looked at it in a blink of an eye, the other participants even wished that they were going to see other things, but no one came to bid for these pieces of Hongshan Ancient Jade with him.
But at this time, when I looked up again, I couldn't help but be startled again, it turned out that at this time, those guys were actually gathered in the middle of the booth, pointing to something on the booth and pointing.
With so many people concentrating on that thing, Jin Muchen couldn't help but be a little curious, what are they looking at, so fascinated?
So I couldn't help but step forward to take a look, this look was amazing, and I was directly startled.
As soon as I approached the booth, I smelled a very obvious smell of decay in my nose, and when I looked closely, there was a large piece of black and rotten wood on the booth.
Some parts of the wood have rotted away, and some places are covered with mud, and the black looks very bad.
However, if you look closely, you can see that this should be a coffin that I don't know how long after it was stolen from that ancient tomb.
After seeing this thing, Jin Muchen also sighed, these guys are really powerful, they can actually get such an ancient tomb coffin, it can really be said that they have the ability to reach the sky.
Although I don't know what age this coffin is, it is certain that it must have been taken out of the ancient tomb, which Jin Muchen's golden eyes can be sure of, and there is no fraud.
But why didn't he open it and take out the contents inside, which made Jin Muchen feel a little confused.
Originally, he was a little confused, but there were many people next to him who were looking at the coffin and whispering, and after listening carefully for a while, he understood, and now he had to sigh even more about the wisdom of the person who held this underground auction.
The emotional family regarded this coffin as the highlight of this auction, and they didn't plan to open it at all and sell the contents one by one.
But the coffin as a stuffy card, as if it is a gambling stone, everyone does not know whether there will be jade in this stone, but you can be sure that this thing is real, if you want to know whether there is jade in it, then you spend money to buy it, open it yourself.
And the meaning of this coffin is the same, this coffin must be a real guy, but what treasures are in it, we don't know the auctioneer.
If you want to know what's in the coffin, then you have to gamble and try your luck, if you're lucky, you may be able to open a lot of national treasures from the coffin, and even the only one-of-a-kind treasures.
If you're unlucky, there may only be a broken loess in this coffin, and it depends on whether you dare to gamble anyway.
The economic acumen of these guys is really admirable, and they can even think of such an idea, Jin Muchen stood aside and thought with emotion.
However, looking at the eager attitude of these onlookers next to him, he knew that such a stuffy auction was probably not once or twice, and these participants were probably familiar with this situation for a long time.
Even some of them are likely to have picked up a lot of bargains in previous auctions, which is why so many people gathered here at this time, pointing at this coffin and guessing what treasures are in this coffin.
These people can only rely on guessing, gambling, and luck for such a coffin, but for Jin Muchen, these are not problems, and they can even be said to be what he is best at. (To be continued......)